Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

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Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

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Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.

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Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

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Life is nothing without friendship.

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Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

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It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

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

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A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

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It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

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Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

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Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.

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For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

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Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.

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I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.

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Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]

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In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.

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Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

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Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.

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