Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

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How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!

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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

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Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

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Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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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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It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

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It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

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It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

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In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.

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The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.

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Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

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Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

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Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.

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The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

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Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

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Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

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So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

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