Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

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That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.

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Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and should not be admitted for a moment. We should ask from friends and do for friends only what is good.

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This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.

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The wise man never loses his temper.

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Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

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The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.

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Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est

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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

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Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

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Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

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To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.

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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

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On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so.

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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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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

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