Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]

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He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

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No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

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Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

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Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]

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This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

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We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

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"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

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The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

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Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

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Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home

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In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

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Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

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We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.

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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

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Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

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He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.

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