Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Generosity should never exceed ability.

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Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

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Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

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Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

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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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True nobility is exempt from fear.

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In the approach to virtue there are many steps.

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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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It is better to receive than to do injury.

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History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

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Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.

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A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

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What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.

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Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

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While the sick man has life, there is hope.

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Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

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People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.... Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don't wait till freedom is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect and make the most of it!

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A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

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