Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

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It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

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

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There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

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Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

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Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

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I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.

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Hmm... That's like telling you about the cold of space, or terror of midnight. Sithis is all those things. He is... the Void.

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In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music.

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When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

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That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]

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

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The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

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A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

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Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.

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Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

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Like associates with like.

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An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

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