Quotes from Cicero

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

The people's good is the highest law.

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law. (Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex)

The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

They condemn what they do not understand.

To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.

To each his own.

To each his own. (Suum Cuique)

We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

What a time! What a civilization!

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.