Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

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

If we can't trust the guards, the jailers, who can we trust?

It is right that what is just should be obeyed; it is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed. Justice without might is helpless; might without justice is tyrannical.

I am unacquainted with [God’s] designs but I shall not cease to believe in them because I cannot fathom them, and I had rather mistrust my own capacity than his justice.

Trust is the byproduct of integrity.

I thank God that I left office the same way I came in: with integrity.

Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.

Justice is truth in action.

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

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

You may have the might, but that does not necessarily make you right.

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

That which is not just is not law.

As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

The American people want to have trust in their leaders.

I like honesty and fair play.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.