The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are! — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children? — Marcus Tullius Cicero