Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

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No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

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Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

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...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

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Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.

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The science of love is the philosophy of the heart

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Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.

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Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

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There is nothing which God cannot do. [Lat., Nihil est quod deus efficere non possit.]

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Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

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A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

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Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

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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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The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

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To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

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O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

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

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