Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.

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The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

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I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]

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I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.

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Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.

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Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

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Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

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I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

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In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

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Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.

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The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

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That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

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We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

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Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

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Can you also, Lucullus, affirm that there is any power united with wisdom and prudence which has made, or, to use your own expression, manufactured man? What sort of a manufacture is that? Where is it exercised? when? why? how?

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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

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He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.

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Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

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He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

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Through doubt we arrive at the truth.

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