Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

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For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

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Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

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There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

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The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

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No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

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This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

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For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.

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Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

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When war is raging the laws are dumb.

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

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There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

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I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

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Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

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The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

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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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