Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

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In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

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The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.

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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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Let the punishment match the offense.

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The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.

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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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No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

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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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Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

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Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

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As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

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Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

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Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

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They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race.

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Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

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Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

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Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.

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I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.

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