Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

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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 more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

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Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

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The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

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In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

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I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

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Religion is the pious worship of God.

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Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

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The wise man never loses his temper.

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"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

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The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.

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No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

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Taxes are the sinews of the state.

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He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

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O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!

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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.

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Let your desires be ruled by reason.

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