Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Everyone has his besetting sin.

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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

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There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

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Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.

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But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

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Our thoughts are free.

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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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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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Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.

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Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

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Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

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No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

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The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

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We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

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There are no true friends in politics.

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Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.

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Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

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The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.

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There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

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Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

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