Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

There is no place more delightful than home.

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Unraveling the web of Penelope.

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There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

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Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

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It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

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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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This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.

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Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

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The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

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What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?

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Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

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Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

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Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

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Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

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He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.

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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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