Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.

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For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

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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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Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

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Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

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What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

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

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No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.

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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

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I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

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All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

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It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

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Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.

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Falsehoods border on truths.

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

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Hunger is the best sauce.

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It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.

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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

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Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

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I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

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