Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

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I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

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It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.

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That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

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No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

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But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?

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While the sick man has life, there is hope.

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The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.

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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

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An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

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The freedom of poetic license.

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Probability is the very guide of life.

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A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

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I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

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In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

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All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

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No one has leave to sin.

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Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

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It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

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Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

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