Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

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Time is the herald of truth.

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Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

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The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."

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He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

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I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

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To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]

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To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

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I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

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Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.

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When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

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Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

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I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

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Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

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Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

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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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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'

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In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

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