Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

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Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

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Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

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To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.

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The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

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For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.

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A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

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Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.

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I am a Roman citizen.

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The beginnings of all things are small.

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It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

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In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.

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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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A true friend is a sort of second self.

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Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home

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Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

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Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]

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Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and should not be admitted for a moment. We should ask from friends and do for friends only what is good.

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