Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

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There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

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The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

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Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

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A letter does not blush.

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Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.

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That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but he who has acknowledged a kindness has it still, and he who has a feeling of it has requited it.

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Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

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Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

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The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

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Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]

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Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.

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The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

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Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

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He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

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No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

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We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

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Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

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