Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

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Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

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Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.

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Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

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Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]

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Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.

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Can you also, Lucullus, affirm that there is any power united with wisdom and prudence which has made, or, to use your own expression, manufactured man? What sort of a manufacture is that? Where is it exercised? when? why? how?

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The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

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The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.

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Peace is freedom in tranquility.

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Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

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There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is unchangeable and eternal. ... It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow. But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding all times and upon all peoples.

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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.

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I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.

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After victory, you have more enemies.

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Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

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