Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

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O philosophy, you leader of life.

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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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Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

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The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

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The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

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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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For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

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Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.

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For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than #‎ agriculture

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To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

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Work makes a callus against grief.

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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

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Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.

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Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse.]

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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

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Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

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The wise man never loses his temper.

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Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.

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