Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.

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I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

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What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?

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We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

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The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.

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Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

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Generosity should never exceed ability.

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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

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It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'

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The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

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Falsehoods border on truths.

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Strict law is often great injustice.

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That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.

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I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

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Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.

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...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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What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

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It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

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