Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

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Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

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In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.

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There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

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Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

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Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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The science of love is the philosophy of the heart

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

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Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.

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It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

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

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The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

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History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

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A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

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Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

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A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]

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For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.

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