Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

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The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.

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No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.

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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

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When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

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As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

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The wise man never loses his temper.

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We are born poets. we become orators.

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Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

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The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.

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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

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For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

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I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.

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

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There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.

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What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

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If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

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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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The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

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Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

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