Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

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Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.

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Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

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To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]

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The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]

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A home without books is a body without soul.

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No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

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There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

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O philosophy, you leader of life.

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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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What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?

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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.

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Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

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Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturæ judicia confirmat. Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.

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Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

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Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

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If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

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The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

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