Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.

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No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

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No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

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The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

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There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money.

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What is more agreeable than one's home?

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Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

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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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If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

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Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

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Freedom is participation in power.

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What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?

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There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

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Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

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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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After victory, you have more enemies.

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Leisure with dignity.

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Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

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