Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.

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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

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The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

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A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.

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I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]

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Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

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It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane.

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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

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It is better to receive than to do injury.

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All soils are not fertile.

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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

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It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

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There is nothing which God cannot do. [Lat., Nihil est quod deus efficere non possit.]

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Taxes are the sinews of the state.

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The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

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As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

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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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