Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

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The foundation of justice is good faith.

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Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

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Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

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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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The popular breeze - Aura popularis

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Our liberality should not exceed our ability.

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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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To live long it is necessary to live slowly.

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It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

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All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

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No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

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Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

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Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

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Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.

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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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Strict law is often great injustice.

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Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.

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Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

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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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