Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

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If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

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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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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

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I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

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I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]

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I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.

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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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Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

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Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

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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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We are born poets. we become orators.

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Virtue is its own reward.

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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

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

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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

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God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

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He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

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The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.

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