Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

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Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

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All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

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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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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

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Freedom is participation in power.

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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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God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

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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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Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

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Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

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In the approach to virtue there are many steps.

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The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

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Like readily consorts with like.

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Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.

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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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Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

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