Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most for him who loves us most; but we should measure affection, not like youngsters, by the ardour of its passion, but rather by its strength and constancy.

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This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.

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I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

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Thrift is a great revenue.

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Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

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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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Unraveling the web of Penelope.

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Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.

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Pardon is granted to necessity.

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Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

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A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

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The science of love is the philosophy of the heart

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Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.

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There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.

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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

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Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.

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I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

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