Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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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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The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

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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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The science of love is the philosophy of the heart

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The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

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Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.

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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

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The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

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Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

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

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Justice renders to every one his due.

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Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

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Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

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Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

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Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

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The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.

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I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

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There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money.

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