Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

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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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There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

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The freedom of poetic license.

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I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]

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It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'

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Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'

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What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

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Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

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War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.

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Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

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Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

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To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

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If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

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A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

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Before beginning, prepare carefully.

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

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

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God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

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