Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

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The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

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Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

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As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap.

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The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.

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The law is silent during war. [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.]

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A wise man does nothing by constraint.

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The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."

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But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?

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Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

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True nobility is exempt from fear.

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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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I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

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One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.

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It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

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Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

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

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No man in his senses will dance.

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It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

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Probability is the very guide of life.

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