Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

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Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.

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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

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Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

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The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.

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Let each man have according to his deserts.

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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

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No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.

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If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.

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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

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One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.

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No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

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Freedom is participation in power.

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Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

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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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Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

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To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]

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