Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

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The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

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One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.

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Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

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No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

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O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

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All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

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A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

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Laws are inoperative in war

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All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

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Laws are silent in time of war.

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Pardon is granted to necessity.

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Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

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Every animal loves itself.

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

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What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

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For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.

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There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.

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