Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation -… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“In times of war, the law falls silent. Silent enim leges inter arma ” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never endangered — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image