Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

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While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.

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It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

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

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No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

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The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

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It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.

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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

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Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

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A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

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The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

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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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That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

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I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

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The science of love is the philosophy of the heart

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Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

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There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.

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Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

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