Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Every animal loves itself.

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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

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Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.

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Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'

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If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

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Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

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Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

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I am never less alone than when alone.

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The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.

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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

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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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No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

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Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.

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Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

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The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.

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In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music.

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He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

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I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

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To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

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There is not a moment without some duty.

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