Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.

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There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.

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Let the punishment match the offense.

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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

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We all are imbued with the love of praise.

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Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

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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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If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

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Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

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No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

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Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.

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For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

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As I breathe, I hope.

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In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

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How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

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For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

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The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.

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It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane.

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