Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Let the punishment match the offense.

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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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No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

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I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]

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Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

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Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

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Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

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

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As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.

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The works of nature must all be accounted good.

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An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. [Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

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There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

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To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child

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You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

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The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

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A true friend is a sort of second self.

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Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

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Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

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