Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

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All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

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When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

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My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

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A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.

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For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

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Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

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It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

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In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

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The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

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No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

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Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

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What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

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Honor is the reward of virtue.

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Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.

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Time is the herald of truth.

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Do nothing twice over.

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As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap.

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That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

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