Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

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The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."

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Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

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The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

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There is a difference between justice and consideration in one's relations to one's fellow men. It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow men of considerateness, not to wound their feelings.

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

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In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

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Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

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If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

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

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If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

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I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

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The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

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Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.

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In times of war, the law falls silent.

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Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

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Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.

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It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

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