Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

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Hunger is the best sauce.

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Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

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Do nothing twice over.

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If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

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Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

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It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.

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This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

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Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

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Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.

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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

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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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That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.

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A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.

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Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?

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People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

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Never injure a friend, even in jest.

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They condemn what they do not understand.

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