Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

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No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

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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

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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]

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Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

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It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.

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A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

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A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.

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The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

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Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.

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The science of love is the philosophy of the heart

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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

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Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

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If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

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To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

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The more laws, the less justice.

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