Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Justice

• They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Justice, Forever, Brotherhood

• The more laws, the less justice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Peace, War, Law

• Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Justice, Political, Prison

  "De Officiis (On Duties)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 10), 44 BC.

• More laws, less justice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Law, Justice, Liberty

• Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Justice, Virtue, Glory

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3069, Delphi Classics

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Justice, Remember, Prison

  "De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book III, Chapter 15), 45 BC.

• More law, less justice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Latin, Law, Justice

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero (2006). “De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations”, p.26, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Justice, Rewards, Sake

  "On the Laws". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I, 18, c. 43 BC.

• The foundation of justice is good faith.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Justice, Foundation, Good Faith

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Patrick Gerard Walsh (2000). “On Obligations”, p.10, Oxford University Press, USA

• There is a difference between justice and consideration in one's relations to one's fellow men. It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow men of considerateness, not to wound their feelings.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Differences, Justice

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Business, Justice, Age

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3124, Delphi Classics

• For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Art, Justice, Grace

• Justice renders to every one his due.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Justice, Prison, Dues

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Giving, Justice

• I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wisdom, Men, Justice

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Government, Law, Justice

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Offense And Defense, Giving

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Men, Giving

• For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Law, Justice, Wicked

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Charles Duke Yonge (1853). “The Treatises of M.T. Cicero: On the Nature of the Gods; On Divination; On Fate; On the Republic; On the Laws; and On Standing for the Consulship”, p.417, London : H.G. Bohn

• The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Giving, Justice, Fairness

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Law, Giving, Justice

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Justice, Suffering, Foundation

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