Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.

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No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.

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All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

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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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Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.

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Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

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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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As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

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No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

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An unjust peace is better than a just war.

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If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

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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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Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

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Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]

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Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

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It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

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Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

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