Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.

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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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According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

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Strict law is often great injustice.

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Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

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Judge not by the number, but by the weight.

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Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word.

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

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That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.

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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

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By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

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Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

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In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.

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Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

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That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

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True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

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Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones.

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