Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

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While there's life, there's hope.

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Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

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Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

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It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

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No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]

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The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

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Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

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The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.

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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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It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

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All great men are partially inspired.

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In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.

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It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

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What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

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

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The freedom of poetic license.

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No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

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Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.

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