Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

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Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.

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Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

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Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

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Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

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For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly said, "that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law is a silent magistrate.

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Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

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The first bond of society is marriage.

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It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

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Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

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The spirit is the true self.

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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

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There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.

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Through doubt we arrive at the truth.

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

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Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

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Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

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