Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

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Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

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The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

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What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.

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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

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The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

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O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!

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A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

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The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

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Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

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Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

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If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole system of credit and finance which is carried on here at Rome in the Forum, is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province. If Those revenues are destroyed, our whole system of credit will come down with a crash.

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If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

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The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.

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Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

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Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

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

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Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]

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