1,226 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.

Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.

It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.