Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

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Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.

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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]

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There is a difference between justice and consideration in one's relations to one's fellow men. It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow men of considerateness, not to wound their feelings.

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A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.

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We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.

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To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

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The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

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The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.

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All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

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Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.

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All things are full of God.

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Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

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Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already.

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I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.

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The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."

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Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

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Pardon is granted to necessity.

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