Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.
The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.
The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.
We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.
Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.
Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.
If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.
To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.
Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.
No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.
No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.
I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.
There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.
In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.
Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!
Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.
Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.
God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.
It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.
Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.
It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.
An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.