Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

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I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

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We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.

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Our thoughts are free.

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What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

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

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What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

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For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

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Taxes are the sinews of the state.

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No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

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Kindness is produced by kindness.

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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

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The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

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Religion is the pious worship of God.

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Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

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There is no thing which God cannot accomplish.

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That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

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Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

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Everyone has his besetting sin.

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