Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

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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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For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

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If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

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Man is his own worst enemy.

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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

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History is the teacher of life

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It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.

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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

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Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

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We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

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An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.

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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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Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

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They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

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If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

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I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

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