Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes, Lying Quotes, Philosophical Quotes

All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

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A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.

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The philosopher caught in the nets of language.

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'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.

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An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some readers will be scared off by dryness. But isn't it necessary to scare off some if in their case the matter would end up in bad hands?

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I don't have a philosophical objection, necessarily, to a travel ban if that is the thing that is going to keep the American people safe.

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It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

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There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently

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The object of the superior man is truth.

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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

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Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

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Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

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From a philosophical perspective, I want to fight off isolationism and protectionism, be it part of another voice out there that says, wait a minute, what matters to women in Afghanistan matters to America. An isolationist point of view says it doesn't matter. The articulation of "all life matters" helps frame the case that it does matter what happens to a woman in Afghanistan.

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We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

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The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

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