Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

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Before beginning, prepare carefully.

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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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Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

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The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.

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I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

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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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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

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Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.

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If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

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True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

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The best interpreter of the law is custom.

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We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

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Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

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To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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Laws are silent in time of war.

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To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.

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