Quotes from Marcus Tullius Cicero

A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.

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

To live long, live slowly.

A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.

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

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

Let each man have according to his deserts.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Nature abhors annihilation.

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.

Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.