Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

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The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

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No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

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If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

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Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

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A wise man does nothing by constraint.

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Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.

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Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

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Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

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Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.

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Everyone has his besetting sin.

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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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Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

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Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

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

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Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

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My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

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