Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

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Peace is freedom in tranquility.

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To freemen, threats are impotent.

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Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.

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To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child

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

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Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

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We are born poets. we become orators.

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It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

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Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

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To live long it is necessary to live slowly.

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A letter does not blush.

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Certain signs precede certain events.

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Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

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A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

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The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.

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