Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

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There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.

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He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.

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Our liberality should not exceed our ability.

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If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

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Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

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How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!

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It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

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He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

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We are not born for ourselves alone.

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The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

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

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Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

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To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

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There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.

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In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

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It is pleasant to recall past troubles.

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