Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

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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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If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

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A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

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We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

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Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

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An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

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Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

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It is pleasant to recall past troubles.

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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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For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

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A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

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If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

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Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.

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Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

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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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All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

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The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

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