Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

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I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

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Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

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Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

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Hatred is settled anger.

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Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

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For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

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If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.

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Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.

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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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Be a pattern to others and then all will go well.

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A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

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Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.

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I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]

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As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

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I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.

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For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

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