Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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Nothing quite new is perfect.

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War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.

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

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While the sick man has life, there is hope.

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Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery.

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

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There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.

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Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.

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Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.

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True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

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That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

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The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.

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Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'

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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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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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Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

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The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

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Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

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