Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

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Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]

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Strain every nerve to gain your point.

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I am a Roman citizen.

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Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

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More laws, less justice.

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A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

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Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

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The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

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Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

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Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]

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We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

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Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest.

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More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.

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It is better to receive than to do injury.

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The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.

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Studies are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; they are companions by night, and in travel, and in the country.

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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

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Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

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