Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

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The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.

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What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

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Falsehoods border on truths.

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No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

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There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

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Certain signs precede certain events.

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I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

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Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

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Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]

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Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

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The foundation of justice is good faith.

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The law is silent during war. [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.]

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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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There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.

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There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

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The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

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There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.

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War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]

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It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

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