Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

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The beginnings of all things are small.

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An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

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History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

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Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

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To live long, live slowly.

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But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most for him who loves us most; but we should measure affection, not like youngsters, by the ardour of its passion, but rather by its strength and constancy.

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What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.

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Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

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

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

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I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

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I hate all children of precocious talent.

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Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.

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We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

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To some extent I liken slavery to death.

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I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]

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Let the punishment match the offense.

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Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]

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