Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

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

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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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For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

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This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.

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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

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There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

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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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For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than #‎ agriculture

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The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

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There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

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Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

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Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

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There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

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The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

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In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

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Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

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This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

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