Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Let the punishment match the offense.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ancient Roman Military Personnel
Ancient Roman Politician
Ancient Roman Priest
Jurist
Lawyer
Orator
Philosopher
Poet
Political Theorist
Dallas
Texas
Marcus Tullius Cicero
M. Tullii Ciceronis
Marcus Tullius -- Translations into French Cicero
Offense
Karma
Match
Forgiveness
Punishment
More quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!
Marcus Tullius Cicero
A man of courage is also full of faith.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, Of the world for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The good of the people is the greatest law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Scurrility has no object in view but incivility if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
All soils are not fertile.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
