Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

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God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

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What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

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In the approach to virtue there are many steps.

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More laws, less justice.

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For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

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A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.

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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

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There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

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A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

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

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

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If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]

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Honor is the reward of virtue.

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Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

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For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

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What is permissible is not always honorable.

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History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

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Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

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