Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

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A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

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I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

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The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]

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Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

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When they remain silent, they cry out.

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

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Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

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Man must suffer to be wise.

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

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If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

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The spirit is the true self.

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Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all.

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

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Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.

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There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

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