Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

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Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

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Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

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He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

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Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]

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True nobility is exempt from fear.

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A community is like the ones who govern it.

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Honor is the reward of virtue.

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

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All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

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

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Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.

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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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Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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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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What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?

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Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

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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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Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

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The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

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