Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

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Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.

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No man in his senses will dance.

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This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.

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Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

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He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.

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Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

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In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.

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Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

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The popular breeze - Aura popularis

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To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]

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Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

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Let each man have according to his deserts.

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Man must suffer to be wise.

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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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Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

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Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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There is nothing which God cannot do. [Lat., Nihil est quod deus efficere non possit.]

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Virtue is its own reward.

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