Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]

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It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

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The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]

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

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The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

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For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly said, "that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law is a silent magistrate.

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In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

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In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

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Everyone has his besetting sin.

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

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For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

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Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.

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To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.

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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

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Laws are silent in time of war.

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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

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