Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

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The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

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More law, less justice.

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It is a great thing to know your vices.

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It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

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Hatred is inveterate anger.

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We make allowance for necessity.

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

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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

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Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

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Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

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This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.

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The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.

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Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and should not be admitted for a moment. We should ask from friends and do for friends only what is good.

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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

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It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane.

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No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.

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The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

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For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

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They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race.

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