Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

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The beginnings of all things are small.

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It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

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The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men

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We are born poets. we become orators.

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Kindness is produced by kindness.

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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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The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong

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Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]

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I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.

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Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home

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It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.

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A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

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This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

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There is no moment without some duty.

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As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

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History is the teacher of life

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I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

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Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

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History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

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