Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Freedom, Evil, Democracy

• Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Philosophy, Home

• The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “De Officiis: (English Edition)”, p.149, LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.

• Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Evil, Stronger, Bud

  Philippicae, V. 11,

• The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Sweet, Peace, War

• Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Good Life, Men, Evil

• No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Pain, Thinking, Men

  "De Officiis (On Duties)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 2), 44 BC.

• If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Evil, Passing Away, Making A Difference

• It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Evil, Evil Thoughts, Madden

• Of evils one should choose the least.
  [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Evil, Should, Exes

• No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god.
  [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Pain, Men, Thinking

  "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 2, 44 B.C..

• Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Ignorance, Evil, Approach

• The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Evil, Limits

• How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Evil, Republic, May

• Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Plato, Men, Sea

  "De Senectute", XIII. 44, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 600-02,

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