Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

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Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

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There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

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All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

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Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.

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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

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Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.

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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

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If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

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I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

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Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

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The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

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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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In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

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Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.

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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

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

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