Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

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What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

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All things are full of God.

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The spirit is the true self.

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For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

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Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

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There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

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Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.

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Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.

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No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

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God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

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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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We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

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If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

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There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

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Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

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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 leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.

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Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

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