Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Strict law is often great injustice.

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The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

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It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

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The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what power they exercise through their unions. They are a nation of rascals and deceivers.

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If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

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Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

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Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.

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To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]

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Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

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An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.

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The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

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Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

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The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

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Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

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Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

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Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.

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What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.

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Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

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