Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

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Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

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Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

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Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

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

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Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.

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To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

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Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

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There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

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As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

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Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest.

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Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

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I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.

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All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

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No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

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Life is short, but art lives forever.

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Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

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The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

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It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

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If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

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