Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

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All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

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I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

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The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

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How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

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

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An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).

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Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

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In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.

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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

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No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.

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Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

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So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

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The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

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

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The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.

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It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

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The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what power they exercise through their unions. They are a nation of rascals and deceivers.

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Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.

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Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'

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