Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

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The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

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The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

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The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

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Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

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They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

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Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

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Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.

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There is nothing which God cannot do. [Lat., Nihil est quod deus efficere non possit.]

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Kindness is produced by kindness.

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Genius is fostered by industry.

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

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Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

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Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

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I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.

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I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]

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