Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

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Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

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Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

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That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.

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It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.

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So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

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It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

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Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war.

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Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

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I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

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Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

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Man must suffer to be wise.

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It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

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The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

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Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

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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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It is a great thing to know your vices.

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Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

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