Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

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For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

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The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]

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In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

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As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

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In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

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Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.

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Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.

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

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The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

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Those who do not know history will forever remain children

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As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

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By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

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Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.

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For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

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It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

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Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

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Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?

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