Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

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There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

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Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

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Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

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Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

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There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.

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He he he... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's... madness.

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That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

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We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.

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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

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The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

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Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

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Pardon is granted to necessity.

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A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

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Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.

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Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

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Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

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