Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

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It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

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Do nothing twice over.

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I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

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Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

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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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Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

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After victory, you have more enemies.

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No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

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Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

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I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

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For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

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

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He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

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Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

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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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For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

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

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There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

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