Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

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

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Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.

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We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

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No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

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Thrift is a great revenue.

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

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Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

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It is a great thing to know your vices.

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

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It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.

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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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The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.

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What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

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No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

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Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]

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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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The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.

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There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

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