Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

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There is not a moment without some duty.

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Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

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For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

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Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only the judges may hear, for instigators are not lacking to stir up the crowd against me, and against all the best citizens. To scorn, in the interest of the Republic, this multitude of Jews so often turbulent in the assemblies shows a singular strength of mind. The money is in the Treasury; they do not accuse us of theft; they seek to stir up hatreds.

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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

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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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The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.

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But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

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Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

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A true friend is a sort of second self.

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To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]

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History is the teacher of life

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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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No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

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Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

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No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

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Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.

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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

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