Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

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There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

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Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

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Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

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Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

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It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

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

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

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Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.

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The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

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No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

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Honor is the reward of virtue.

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

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Hatred is settled anger.

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But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?

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Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

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If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

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