Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

There is a difference between justice and consideration in one's relations to one's fellow men. It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow men of considerateness, not to wound their feelings.

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Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

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Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.

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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.

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Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

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In the approach to virtue there are many steps.

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What is more agreeable than one's home?

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It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

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The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.

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I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]

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But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

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No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

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Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

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Peace is freedom in tranquility.

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Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.

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"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

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Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

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No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

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