Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

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These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.

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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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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

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Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

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Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

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For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.

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No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

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

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The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

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Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

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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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"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

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Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

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I am a Roman citizen.

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They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

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