Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

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Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

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No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

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The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

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Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

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Never injure a friend, even in jest.

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All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]

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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.

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Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and should not be admitted for a moment. We should ask from friends and do for friends only what is good.

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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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Hatred is settled anger.

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Dogs wait for us faithfully.

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Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

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True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

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The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

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The freedom of poetic license.

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Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

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Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

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Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

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Judge not by the number, but by the weight.

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