Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

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I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

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Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

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The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

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No sane man will dance.

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There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

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A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

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Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

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The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

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He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.

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Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]

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Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

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Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

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Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

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Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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Judge not by the number, but by the weight.

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In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

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