Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

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Falsehoods border on truths.

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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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Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

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The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

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Honor is the reward of virtue.

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Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.]

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Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]

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

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What is more agreeable than one's home?

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Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

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There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]

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Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

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Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

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The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.

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...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

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Peace is freedom in tranquility.

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The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men

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