Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.

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Thrift is a great revenue.

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The whole of virtue consists in its practice.

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Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

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In times of war, the law falls silent.

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Hatred is inveterate anger.

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Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

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Hatred is a settled anger.

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Ability without honor is useless.

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There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is unchangeable and eternal. ... It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow. But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding all times and upon all peoples.

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Friends, though absent, are still present.

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Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

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The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]

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Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.

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

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Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

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Life is nothing without friendship.

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If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.

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The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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