Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Justice renders to every one his due.

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A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

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Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.

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A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

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The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.

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In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music.

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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

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This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.

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Time is the herald of truth.

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The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

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There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

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A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

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But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?

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The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.

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The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

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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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There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.

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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

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He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.

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