Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.

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Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.

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

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Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

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Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

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Taxes are the sinews of the state.

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He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

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A community is like the ones who govern it.

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He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.

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He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

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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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It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

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There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.

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For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

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Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

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Philosophy is the true mother of science.

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Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

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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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