Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

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No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

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The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

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The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]

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

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For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

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Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

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Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

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In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.

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It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.

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Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

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Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

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The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business.

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In the approach to virtue there are many steps.

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Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.

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It is pleasant to recall past troubles.

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You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.

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