Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

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History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

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Always the same thing.

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They condemn what they do not understand.

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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

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Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

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What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

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Do nothing twice over.

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

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It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

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What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?

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I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

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These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.

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We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

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A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

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Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.

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All things are full of God.

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