Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

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This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.

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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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The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

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Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

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The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong

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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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The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

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In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.

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There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

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For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

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Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.

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They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

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When war is raging the laws are dumb.

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The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

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The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

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We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

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Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word.

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We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If good will and affection are taken away, every joy is taken from life.

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