Marcus Tullius Cicero Errors Quotations

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.

For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

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.