Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

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There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is unchangeable and eternal. ... It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow. But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding all times and upon all peoples.

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Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

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The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

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Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

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War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.

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Frugality includes all the other virtues.

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Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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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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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

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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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In times of war, the law falls silent.

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

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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

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Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.

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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

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What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?

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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

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Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

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