Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

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I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

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There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

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If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

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It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

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Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

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Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

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As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap.

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When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!

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Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

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The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.

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The human mind ever longs for occupation.

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There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

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The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

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If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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Work makes a callus against grief.

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