Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

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The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]

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In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

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In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.

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There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.

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Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

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The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.

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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

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Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

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Let the punishment match the offense.

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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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No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.

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There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

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There is not a moment without some duty.

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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

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Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

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Friends, though absent, are still present.

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There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.

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