Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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.]

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Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]

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According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

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The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

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Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.

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What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

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Man must suffer to be wise.

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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

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There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.

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We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

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In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

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History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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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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Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

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The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."

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If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

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Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

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