Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

What greater thing than to have someone with whom you dare to speak as you do with yourself?

The truth is corrupted as much by lies as by silence.

To know is one thing, to teach to know is another.

The better one is, the more difficult it is to suspect the wickedness of others.

These are bad times. Children have stopped obeying their parents and everyone is writing books.

Confidence corrupts friendship; too much contact consumes it; respect preserves it.

Friendship is a perfect agreement of the feelings of human and divine things, united with kindness and mutual tenderness.

Justice expects no reward. It is accepted for its own sake. And in the same way, all virtues are.

It is foolish to tear out one's hair in moments of affliction, as if it could be relieved by baldness.

Love is the desire to obtain the friendship of a person who attracts us with their beauty.

He who seduces a judge with the prestige of his eloquence is more guilty than he who corrupts him with money.

As nothing is more beautiful than knowing the truth, nothing is more shameful than approving the lie and taking it for truth.