Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

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The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.

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Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.

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Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.

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The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

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No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.

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For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

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Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

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How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?

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The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

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Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.

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A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

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No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

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That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]

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A home without books is a body without soul.

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All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

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The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.

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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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Hmm... That's like telling you about the cold of space, or terror of midnight. Sithis is all those things. He is... the Void.

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