For there is but one essential... - Marcus Tullius Cicero - Quotes.Pub

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

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Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

Rights Quotes

Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.

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

We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one’s self equal with the good.

Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already.

We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.

Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.

The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.

But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world’s opinion of himself.

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

A bachelor’s bed is the most pleasant.

I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap.

In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.

Always the same thing.

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

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