Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?

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O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

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I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.

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The whole of virtue consists in its practice.

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Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

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Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

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As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

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To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

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The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.

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I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.

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Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

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I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

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The beginnings of all things are small.

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A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

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Our thoughts are free.

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The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

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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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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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