Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

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Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only the judges may hear, for instigators are not lacking to stir up the crowd against me, and against all the best citizens. To scorn, in the interest of the Republic, this multitude of Jews so often turbulent in the assemblies shows a singular strength of mind. The money is in the Treasury; they do not accuse us of theft; they seek to stir up hatreds.

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True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.

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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

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When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!

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Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

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Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

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I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

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The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.

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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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Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

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Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

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While the sick man has life, there is hope.

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

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Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

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Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?

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Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

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It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

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More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.

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