Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

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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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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

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In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

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Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

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To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]

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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]

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Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]

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There is a difference between justice and consideration in one's relations to one's fellow men. It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow men of considerateness, not to wound their feelings.

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I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

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I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

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A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

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If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.

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Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

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Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

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Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

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Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

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All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

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We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.

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