Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The human mind ever longs for occupation.

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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

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Do nothing twice over.

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I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.

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The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

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There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

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It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

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If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.

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Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

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A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

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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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The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

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The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

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A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

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Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.

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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

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Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

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

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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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