Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Let us not go over the old ground but rather prepare for what is to come.

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There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

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For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

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The foundation of justice is good faith.

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The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]

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They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

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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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No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

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There is nothing god cannot do.

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Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

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I am a Roman citizen.

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The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

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The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

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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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Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

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Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

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I am never less alone than when alone.

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Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

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The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

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