Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]

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Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.

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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.

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Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

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You may never be less alone than when you are alone.

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An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.

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Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.

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Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

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All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

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Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

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An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

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To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

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Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

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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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No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

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When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.

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A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]

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Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.

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In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

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