Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

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Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

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We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.

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Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

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The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

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How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?

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When war is raging the laws are dumb.

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Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

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It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

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Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

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This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

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Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.

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It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

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It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

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We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

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History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

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A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

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