Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

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The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

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Genius is fostered by industry.

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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

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Life is short, but art lives forever.

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That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

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They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

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Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

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The wise man never loses his temper.

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

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A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

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We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

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All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

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Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

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There is no moment without some duty.

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When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.

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

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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

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There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.

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