Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?

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Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

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No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

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Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

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Justice renders to every one his due.

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"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

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The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

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For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

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Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

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Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

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Ability without honor is useless.

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

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We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

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A wise man does nothing by constraint.

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Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est

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No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

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Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

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The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

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What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

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The foundation of justice is good faith.

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