Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child

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The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong

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An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. [Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

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Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and should not be admitted for a moment. We should ask from friends and do for friends only what is good.

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To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

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The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

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Nature abhors annihilation.

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What is dignity without honesty?

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No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

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But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?

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Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.

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Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'

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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

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Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

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Let each man have according to his deserts.

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No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

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Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

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