Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]

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Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

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. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.

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The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

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Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already.

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Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

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Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

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Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.

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Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

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Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

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Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake.

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A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

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It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

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Frugality includes all the other virtues.

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

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Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

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It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

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