Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Ability without honor is useless.

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A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.

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The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]

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Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturæ judicia confirmat. Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.

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

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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

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But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?

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More laws, less justice.

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How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!

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Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.

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Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

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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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Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

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The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

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The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

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How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

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The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

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