Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Opinion, Glory

  Cicero,, Marcus Tullius Cicero, D.H. Berry (2009). “Political Speeches”, p.167, Oxford University Press

• Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Eye, Light

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pierre-Joseph Thoulier Olivet, Alexander WISHART (1750). “Thoughts of Cicero, on the following subjects, viz. I. Religion, II. Man ... XII. Miscellaneous thoughts. Published in Latin and French by the Abbé d'Olivet; to which is now added, an English translation, with notes. [By Alexander Wishart.]”, p.73

• Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Political, Public Opinion, Investing

• When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Law, Abuse

• If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Errors, Soul, Needs

• I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

• Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Truth, Lying, Honor

• It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Arrogant, World

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.50

• No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Opinion, Changed

• Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Power, Opinion, Authority

• No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Consistency, Opinion, Wells

  "Epistulae ad Atticum (Letters to Atticus)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book XVI, Chapter 7), 68-43 BC.

• The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Matter, Opinion, Absolutes

• Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Time, Nature, Science

• Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Grief, Sorrow, Opinion

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1886). “Tusculan Disputations ...”

• Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Nature, Law, Opinion

• But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Law, Matter, Opinion

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Tusc. Quæst, I, 13, 30, p. 569-70, 1922.

• I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method.
  [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Voting, Ego, Viva

  "On the Laws". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, III. 15, c. 43 B.C..

• There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Stupid, Stupidity, Opinion

• No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wise, Men, Opinion

• Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Sound, Public Opinion, Influence

• Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Law, Opinion, Ends

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