Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

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

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.