Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

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Hunger is the best sauce.

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History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

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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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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

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Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones.

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In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

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

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Work makes a callus against grief.

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The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

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Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery.

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

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True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

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Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

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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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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

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O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]

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Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

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