Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

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No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

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All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

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If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

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Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and should not be admitted for a moment. We should ask from friends and do for friends only what is good.

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Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

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

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He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.

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Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

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Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

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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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Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

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If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

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No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]

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Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

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Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

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True nobility is exempt from fear.

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