Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

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The best interpreter of the law is custom.

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He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

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Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

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There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

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The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.

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We all are imbued with the love of praise.

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It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

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Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

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No man in his senses will dance.

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A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.

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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

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For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.

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War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]

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It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

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Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

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Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

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Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

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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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