Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.

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Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

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Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

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Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.

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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]

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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

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For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

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The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men

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Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake.

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I am never less alone than when alone.

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

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Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

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Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

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If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

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Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

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It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

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Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

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Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

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A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

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To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

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