1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

We're serious. This isn't a joke, ... If an entire town changed its name to DISH, you can't buy that publicity.

Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

Let us not go over the old ground, let us rather prepare for what is to come

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.