Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

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Whatever you do, do with all your might.

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O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

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How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

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It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

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A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.

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For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

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Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.

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Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

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If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

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It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

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I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

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All things are full of God.

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A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

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Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

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There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

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Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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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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