Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

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What is permissible is not always honorable.

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If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.

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I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]

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Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

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I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

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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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That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

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For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

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There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.

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Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

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A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

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It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

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It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

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I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

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Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.

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