Cicero Quotes
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.
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
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.
Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.
This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.
It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.
The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.
It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.
The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.
It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.
Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.
Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.
