Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.

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Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

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Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

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Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]

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Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

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Friends, though absent, are still present.

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That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

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I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

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A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

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In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

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It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

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No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

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Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

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Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]

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There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

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In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

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As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.

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More laws, less justice.

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In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.

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