Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

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Peace is freedom in tranquility.

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

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

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The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."

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Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

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Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.

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For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

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Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]

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The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.

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No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

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Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

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O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!

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Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.

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Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

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But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

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Leisure with dignity.

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Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

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Let each man have according to his deserts.

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