Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

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A true friend is a sort of second self.

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I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.

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

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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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Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.

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Our liberality should not exceed our ability.

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Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

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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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If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

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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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War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.

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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

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Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturæ judicia confirmat. Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.

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There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

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Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.

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To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

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A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

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I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

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There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

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