Justice Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

26 Justice quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Cicero’s voice still echoes when we talk about law and virtue. Across twenty‑six entries you’ll see how the Roman orator linked civic duty to personal integrity, a reminder that ancient debates still matter.

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Strict law is often great injustice.

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More law, less justice.

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Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

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More laws, less justice.

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The foundation of justice is good faith.

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The more laws, the less justice.

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A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

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Justice renders to every one his due.

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Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

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Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake.

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The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong

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Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

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The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.

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Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.

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To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.

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I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear,…

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This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of…

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They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and…

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For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in…

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God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is…

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For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason,…

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There is a difference between justice and consideration in one's relations to one's fellow men. It is the function of justice not…

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Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

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Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first;…

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“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”

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Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione…

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Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

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Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

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Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than…

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