Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

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All great men are partially inspired.

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The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

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If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.

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I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

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In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.

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Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

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It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

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Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

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In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.

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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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Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

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There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.

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I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

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The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

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The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

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Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

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

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A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

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