Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

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

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But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

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Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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Hatred is inveterate anger.

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The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

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No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

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I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

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For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

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In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.

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Never injure a friend, even in jest.

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The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

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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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The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

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When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

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

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Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]

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