Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.

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I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.

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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

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Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.

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Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

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For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.

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Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.

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All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

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On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so.

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A man has no enemy worse than himself.

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No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

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No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

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We all are imbued with the love of praise.

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I am a Roman citizen.

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Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

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In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.

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The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.

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Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

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