Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

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Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]

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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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All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

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There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money.

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The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

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Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.

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Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.

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Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.

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The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.

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Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

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Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

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These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.

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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

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In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.

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What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?

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