Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

There are no true friends in politics.

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O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

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I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

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When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!

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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

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There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

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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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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

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He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

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The more laws, the less justice.

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I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

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It is better to receive than to do injury.

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There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

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The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

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He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

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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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Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.

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Nature abhors annihilation.

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The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

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