Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

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Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]

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O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!

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Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.

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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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For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.

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As you have sown so shall you reap.

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There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.

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It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.

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Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

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The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

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The works of nature must all be accounted good.

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Laws are inoperative in war

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If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.

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Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.

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O philosophy, you leader of life.

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I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

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Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

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I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

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