Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

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You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

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Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

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Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

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Our liberality should not exceed our ability.

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Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

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Work makes a callus against grief.

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For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?

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He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.

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For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

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Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

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There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

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There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.

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Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

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Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

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Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

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Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

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If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

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Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

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