1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.

It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]

Time is the herald of truth.

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.