Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

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Hatred is settled anger.

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For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

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The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

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Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

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Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

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Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

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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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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

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Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

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Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.

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A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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It is a great thing to know your vices.

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A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

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Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

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The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

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When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

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Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

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Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

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