Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly said, "that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law is a silent magistrate.

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Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.

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Tomorrow will give us something to think about

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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

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As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.

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I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.

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Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

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Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

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The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.

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A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

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Pardon is granted to necessity.

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Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

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Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.

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Every animal loves itself.

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Man must suffer to be wise.

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I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

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Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

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