Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

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There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

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All soils are not fertile.

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It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.

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Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

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I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

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The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

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The whole of virtue consists in its practice.

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

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Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

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Everyone has his besetting sin.

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This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.

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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

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Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

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The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.

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Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

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If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

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Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

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From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.

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