Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.

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It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

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Friends, though absent, are still present.

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Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

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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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Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

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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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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

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Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

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He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

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While the sick man has life, there is hope.

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The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

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In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

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Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

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There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

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A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

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