Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorThe truth is corrupted as much by lies as by silence.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorTo know is one thing, to teach to know is another.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorThe better one is, the more difficult it is to suspect the wickedness of others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorThese are bad times. Children have stopped obeying their parents and everyone is writing books.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorConfidence corrupts friendship; too much contact consumes it; respect preserves it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorFriendship is a perfect agreement of the feelings of human and divine things, united with kindness and mutual tenderness.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorJustice expects no reward. It is accepted for its own sake. And in the same way, all virtues are.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorIt is foolish to tear out one's hair in moments of affliction, as if it could be relieved by baldness.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorLove is the desire to obtain the friendship of a person who attracts us with their beauty.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorHe who seduces a judge with the prestige of his eloquence is more guilty than he who corrupts him with money.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorThis is the first precept of friendship: To ask of friends only what is honest, and to do only what is honest for them.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorThere is nothing so incredible that oratory cannot make it acceptable.