Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.

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The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong

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It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

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A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

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Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

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Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

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The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.

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Always the same thing.

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To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

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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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The wise man never loses his temper.

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He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

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You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

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Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

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Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

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Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.

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Laws are silent in time of war.

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Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

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It is pleasant to recall past troubles.

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