Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Do nothing twice over.

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For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

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If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.

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There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

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Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]

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What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

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In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.

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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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I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.

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Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

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We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

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The whole of virtue consists in its practice.

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Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

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The human mind ever longs for occupation.

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It is a great thing to know your vices.

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Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

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Our liberality should not exceed our ability.

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Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.

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