Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.

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For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

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Man is his own worst enemy.

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Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.

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Pardon is granted to necessity.

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The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.

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Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

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Generosity should never exceed ability.

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Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]

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There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

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We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If good will and affection are taken away, every joy is taken from life.

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. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.

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Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

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They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

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The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

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

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Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

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

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In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

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