Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

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What times! What manners!

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To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.

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...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

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It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

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To freemen, threats are impotent.

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The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.

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This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.

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The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

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The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.

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I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.

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He he he... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's... madness.

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If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

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The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

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Hmm... That's like telling you about the cold of space, or terror of midnight. Sithis is all those things. He is... the Void.

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All great men are partially inspired.

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I hate all children of precocious talent.

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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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We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

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Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

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