Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

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We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

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Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

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The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

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Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

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Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

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It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

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We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

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There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

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Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

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

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The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.

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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

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To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

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Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'

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To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

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