Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

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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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Let reason govern desire.

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If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

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The freedom of poetic license.

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The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

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It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

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Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

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Religion is the pious worship of God.

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The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

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The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

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For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

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No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

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Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

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Nature abhors annihilation.

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

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Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

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If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.

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What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

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