Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

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No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

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The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

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He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

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Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

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Let your desires be ruled by reason.

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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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Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

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No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

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The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.

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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

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It is better to receive than to do injury.

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An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).

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In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

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Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.

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Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

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