Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.... Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don't wait till freedom is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect and make the most of it!

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The wise man never loses his temper.

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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.

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A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

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He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

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Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

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There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

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I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

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There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.

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Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.

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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

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In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

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We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

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To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.

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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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Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

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Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

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Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery.

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Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

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