Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

There were poets before Homer.

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The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

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So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

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What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

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We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

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I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]

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There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

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The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

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Hmm... That's like telling you about the cold of space, or terror of midnight. Sithis is all those things. He is... the Void.

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Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

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For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

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Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

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We are born poets. we become orators.

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We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

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We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

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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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Thrift is of great revenue.

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Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

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It is better to receive than to do injury.

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There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

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