Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

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

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The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong

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Philosophy is the true mother of science.

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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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For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?

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Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.

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Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

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Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

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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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He he he... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's... madness.

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What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.

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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

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Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

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What is permissible is not always honorable.

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

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

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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

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