Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.

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When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!

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Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

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I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

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Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

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I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

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Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

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There is no place more delightful than home.

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Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

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The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

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No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

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The works of nature must all be accounted good.

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While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.

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People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.... Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don't wait till freedom is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect and make the most of it!

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After victory, you have more enemies.

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A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

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If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

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Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

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Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

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Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.

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