Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

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In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

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If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

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Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

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A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]

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We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

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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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In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

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Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

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We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

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There is no moment without some duty.

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Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.

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As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap.

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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

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When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!

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Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.

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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

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The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

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Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

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