Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

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

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

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The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

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For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

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The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.

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These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.

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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

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A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

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Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

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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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The sinews of war are infinite money.

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Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

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The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

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That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.

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But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most for him who loves us most; but we should measure affection, not like youngsters, by the ardour of its passion, but rather by its strength and constancy.

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Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

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