Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

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The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.

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In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

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To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.

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In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

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If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

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I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.

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The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

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Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

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Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

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We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

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Frugality includes all the other virtues.

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Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.

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To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

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Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

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Dogs wait for us faithfully.

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Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

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

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