Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.

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Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

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Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

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In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.

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Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

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No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]

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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

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Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

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Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

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You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

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

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For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

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Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

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I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

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The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.

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Nature has inclined us to love men.

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I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.

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Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

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For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

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