Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Let reason govern desire.

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Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.

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To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

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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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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

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If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

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Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

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

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No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

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Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

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There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.

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The sinews of war are infinite money.

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Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything.

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Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

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I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

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He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

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The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

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