Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

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All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

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Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

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There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.

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A wise man does nothing by constraint.

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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

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Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

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The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.

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Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

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Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

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

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In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.

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Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est

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It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

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Pardon is granted to necessity.

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...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

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The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.

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To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

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

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I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

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