Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

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He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

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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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The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

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It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane.

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Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

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

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Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.

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True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

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They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

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Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

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Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.

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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

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There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

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

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Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

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If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole system of credit and finance which is carried on here at Rome in the Forum, is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province. If Those revenues are destroyed, our whole system of credit will come down with a crash.

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