Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery.

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Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

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There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

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All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

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

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There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.

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Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

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

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Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

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Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

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So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

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The foundation of justice is good faith.

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Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

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The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.

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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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The whole of virtue consists in its practice.

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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

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