Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

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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.

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Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

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Let the punishment match the offense.

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Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

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The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]

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

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Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

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Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

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The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

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The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."

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It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

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A wise man does nothing by constraint.

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Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

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Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]

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Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit

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A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

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That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]

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