Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.

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Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

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The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

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Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.

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There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

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Life is short, but art lives forever.

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Genius is fostered by industry.

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In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

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

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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

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To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

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Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

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No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

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We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

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There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is unchangeable and eternal. ... It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow. But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding all times and upon all peoples.

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The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

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Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

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What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

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No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]

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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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