Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

We are not born for ourselves alone.

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It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.

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Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

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Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.

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We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

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Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

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The foundation of justice is good faith.

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

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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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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]

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Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home

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Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake.

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Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.

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A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

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Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.

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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

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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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