Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

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All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

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Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.

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I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

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Freedom is participation in power.

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. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.

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There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

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What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

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Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

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God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

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Let reason govern desire.

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He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.

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Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

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We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

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An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. [Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

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A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

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The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.

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Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

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There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

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