Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

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Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.

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The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

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When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!

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It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

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Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

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Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.

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How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?

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Leisure with dignity.

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War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]

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It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.

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Do nothing twice over.

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The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

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The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.

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The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

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Pardon is granted to necessity.

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He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

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Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.

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