Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Falsehoods border on truths.

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He he he... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's... madness.

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Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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The more laws, the less justice.

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No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

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For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.

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Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

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The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

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What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

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

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For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

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It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

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Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war.

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

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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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I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]

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If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]

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