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Famous Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
“Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]”
“Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.”
“It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.”
“The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.”
“There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.”
“I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.”
“The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]”
“What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!”
“No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.”
“The law is silent during war. [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.]”
“Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]”
“What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.”
“I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.”
“Tomorrow will give us something to think about”
“In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.”
“Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.”
“A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.”