Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery.

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Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]

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If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

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We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.

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Generosity should never exceed ability.

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For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

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This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.

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Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

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Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

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Nothing quite new is perfect.

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What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

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To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

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Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

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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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Man is his own worst enemy.

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For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

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