1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.

Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.

In nothing do men approach so nearly to the Gods, as in giving health to men.

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.