Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

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For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.

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No one has leave to sin.

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He has no worse enemy than himself.

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For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly said, "that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law is a silent magistrate.

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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

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Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.

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The human mind ever longs for occupation.

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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.

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Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

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Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

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Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

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Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only the judges may hear, for instigators are not lacking to stir up the crowd against me, and against all the best citizens. To scorn, in the interest of the Republic, this multitude of Jews so often turbulent in the assemblies shows a singular strength of mind. The money is in the Treasury; they do not accuse us of theft; they seek to stir up hatreds.

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Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

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No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

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I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.

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

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