Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

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The beginnings of all things are small.

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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

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Judge not by the number, but by the weight.

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Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.

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It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

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For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

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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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True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

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We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If good will and affection are taken away, every joy is taken from life.

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They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race.

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Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

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The more laws, the less justice.

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Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

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He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

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

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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

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I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

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There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.

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Falsehoods border on truths.

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