“For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.”
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Famous Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
“Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.”
“He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.”
“Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.”
“No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.”
“Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.”
“There were poets before Homer.”
Source: Brutus, with an English translation
“Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.”
“The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.”
“I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.”
“Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake.”
“It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.”
“In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.”
“The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.”
“Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.”
“Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.”
“I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.”
“I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.”
“In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.”
“It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.”
“He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.”
“Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est”