Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

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We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.

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Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

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Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

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The more laws, the less justice.

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The beginnings of all things are small.

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Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

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Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

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Every man's friend is no man's friend.

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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

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Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

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In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.

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Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

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Old age by nature is rather talkative.

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