Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

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All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

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I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

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The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

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Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

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Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

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People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

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That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

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Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

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Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.

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For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

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Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

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In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.

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An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.

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The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

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Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

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For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.

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