Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

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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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The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

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In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.

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As I breathe, I hope.

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

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To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

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A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

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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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What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

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Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]

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He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

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It is pleasant to recall past troubles.

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Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

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

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The whole of virtue consists in its practice.

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The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

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

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Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.

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