Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.

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More law, less justice.

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When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.

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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

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For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

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Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

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That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

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I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

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That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but he who has acknowledged a kindness has it still, and he who has a feeling of it has requited it.

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Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

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

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A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

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History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

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This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.

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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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Always the same thing.

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Those who do not know history will forever remain children

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