Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

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Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.

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No one has leave to sin.

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

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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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No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

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Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

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There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

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The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

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The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

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All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

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I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

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Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

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Generosity should never exceed ability.

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

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Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

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Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

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I hate all children of precocious talent.

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Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

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In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

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