Marcus Tullius Cicero Yield Quotations

Let arms yield to the toga, the laurel crown to praise.

Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.

The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.