Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

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Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and should not be admitted for a moment. We should ask from friends and do for friends only what is good.

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Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse.]

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Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

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Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

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No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

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For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

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No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

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Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

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Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

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Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

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For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

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The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

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Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

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The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

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Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]

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The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]

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