Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

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I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

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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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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

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Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.

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Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

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

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We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

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I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

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The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

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It is necessary for a Senator to be thoroughly acquainted with the constitution; and this is a knowledge of the most extensive nature; a matter of science, of diligence, of reflection, without which no Senator can possibly be fit for his office.

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Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

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There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

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

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The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

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You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

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There is no moment without some duty.

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