Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

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For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

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The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

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Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

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To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

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

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Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.

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Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

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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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A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

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In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.

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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

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Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

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On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so.

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No sane man will dance.

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A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

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