Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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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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What is more agreeable than one's home?

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What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?

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No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

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A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

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Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

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It is better to receive than to do injury.

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How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?

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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 absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

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In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

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

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The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.

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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

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

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Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

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As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.

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When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

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