Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

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To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.

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The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

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An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.

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Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

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It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

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If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole system of credit and finance which is carried on here at Rome in the Forum, is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province. If Those revenues are destroyed, our whole system of credit will come down with a crash.

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The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

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In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

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To freemen, threats are impotent.

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Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

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Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.

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It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

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

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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

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He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

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No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

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Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.

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Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

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