Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

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The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

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Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

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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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Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

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The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

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Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

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The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

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A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

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There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

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There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

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Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.

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It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.

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For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.

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When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

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Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.

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The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.

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The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

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Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

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