Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Life without learning is death.

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Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

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Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

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These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.

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All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

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Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all.

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Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

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The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

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If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.

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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

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But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?

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We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

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It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.

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If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

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Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

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