Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

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Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

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Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war.

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Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

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There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

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All great men are partially inspired.

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What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.

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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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That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.

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

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True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.

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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

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Hatred is settled anger.

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No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

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Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

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Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

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Let each man have according to his deserts.

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

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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

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