Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

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Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

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Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

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To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

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"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

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There is a difference between justice and consideration in one's relations to one's fellow men. It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow men of considerateness, not to wound their feelings.

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Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

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The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

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Taxes are the sinews of the state.

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There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

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Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

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It is pleasant to recall past troubles.

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

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Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.

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There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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The science of love is the philosophy of the heart

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Honor is the reward of virtue.

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A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.

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