Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

There are no true friends in politics.

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Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

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The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

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If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.

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

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All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

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While there's life, there's hope.

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I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

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To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]

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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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Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.

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Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war.

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Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.

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Every animal loves itself.

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Thrift is of great revenue.

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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

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It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.

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The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

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In the approach to virtue there are many steps.

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