Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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To live long, live slowly.

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Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

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The law is silent during war. [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.]

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If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

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Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

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The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

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I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

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When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

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It is pleasant to recall past troubles.

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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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Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

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A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

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Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

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Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

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Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

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Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

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Nothing quite new is perfect.

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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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