Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

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More law, less justice.

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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.

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Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war.

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For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly said, "that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law is a silent magistrate.

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...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

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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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Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

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The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.

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Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

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All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

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Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

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This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

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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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As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap.

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According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

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Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

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