Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

All great men are partially inspired.

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Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

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History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

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Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.

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For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.

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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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It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

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There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

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Peace is freedom in tranquility.

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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

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In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

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All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

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There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

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Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

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The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

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They condemn what they do not understand.

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