Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

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As you have sown so shall you reap.

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

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All things are full of God.

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The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

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The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.

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Strict law is often great injustice.

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It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.

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It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

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The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

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Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

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The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.

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There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

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The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.

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Judge not by the number, but by the weight.

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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

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The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

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

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