Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• An unjust peace is better than a just war.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, War, Philosophical

• Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Hero, Honor

• Laws are silent in time of war.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Philosophical, Law

  Pro Milone ch. 11

• The more laws, the less justice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Peace, War, Law

• For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Peace, War, Civil War

  "Philippics". 2. 15. 37,

• You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Good Life, War

• After victory, you have more enemies.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Enemy, Victory

• The sinews of war are infinite money.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Peace, Money, War

• I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Peace, War, Unjust

• 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

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Peace, War, Believe

• Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Yield, Laurels

  'De Officiis' bk. 1, ch. 77

• Laws are inoperative in war

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Military, War, Law

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Revenge, War, Defense

  "On the Republic. On the Laws".

• The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Philosophical, May

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “De Officiis: (English Edition)”, p.26, LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.

• There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Past, Remembrance

• Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Enemy, Victory

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.21

• Let reason govern desire.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Desire, Reason

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Home, Army

• Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace.
  [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Acquisition, May

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Way, Should

• The law is silent during war.
  [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Law, Silent

• I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Peace, War, Humanity

  "Letters to Atticus" (1st century B.C.), as quoted in "Words on war: military quotations from ancient times to the present", book by Jay M. Shafritz, 1990.

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Form, Endless

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Latin, Rome

  Pro Milone ch. 11

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