Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.

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No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

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Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

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I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

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For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

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The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

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We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

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Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

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We make allowance for necessity.

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What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

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True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

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Frugality includes all the other virtues.

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The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

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Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.

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The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

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Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

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