Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

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Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.

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Kindness is produced by kindness.

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There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.

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The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

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Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

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Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

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Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.

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A home without books is a body without soul.

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Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

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Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.

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To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

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Man is his own worst enemy.

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A man has no enemy worse than himself.

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The whole of virtue consists in its practice.

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Life without learning is death.

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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

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Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

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