Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

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It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

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Pardon is granted to necessity.

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

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Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

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Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

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For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?

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How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?

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While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

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Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]

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The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.

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Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

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Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

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...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

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Falsehoods border on truths.

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