Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

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True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

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The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.

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The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so.

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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 last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]

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My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

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Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

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But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

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There is nothing god cannot do.

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The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

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Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]

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