Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.]

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Everyone has his besetting sin.

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

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Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]

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A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

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I am a Roman citizen.

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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

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Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

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It is a great thing to know your vices.

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I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]

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The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.

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By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

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I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

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Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

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This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.

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Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

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The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]

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Economy is a great revenue. [Lat., Magnum vectigal est parsimonia.]

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