Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.

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All great men are partially inspired.

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What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

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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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I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

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

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While the sick man has life, there is hope.

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There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.

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Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

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I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

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Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

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No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

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The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

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When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

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Our thoughts are free.

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It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

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Falsehoods border on truths.

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The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

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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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