Quotes from Marcus Tullius Cicero

An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. [Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

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.

More law, less justice.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

Laws are inoperative in war

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]

When war is raging the laws are dumb.

War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.

Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]

In times of war, the law falls s

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

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

There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.