Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

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It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

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. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.

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Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

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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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It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

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Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

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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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If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

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Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

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Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

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In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

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Hunger is the best sauce.

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There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

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Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

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A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

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Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.

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The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

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If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

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