Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

He who suffers, remembers.

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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

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This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.

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

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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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We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

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Generosity should never exceed ability.

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I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

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Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.

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The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.

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Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]

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The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.

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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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If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.

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An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).

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The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

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There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]

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The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

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