Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole system of credit and finance which is carried on here at Rome in the Forum, is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province. If Those revenues are destroyed, our whole system of credit will come down with a crash.

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In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

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While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.

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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

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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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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

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A man has no enemy worse than himself.

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In times of war, the law falls silent.

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Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

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I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]

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Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

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Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

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To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

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When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

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In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

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What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

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Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

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It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

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