Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.

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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

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Certain signs precede certain events.

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Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

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The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

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A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

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I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.

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Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

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What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

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He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

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That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

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Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

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The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]

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Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

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There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

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