Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

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It is pleasant to recall past troubles.

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A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]

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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

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It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

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After victory, you have more enemies.

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Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

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What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

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Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

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Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

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As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

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When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!

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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

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The sinews of war are infinite money.

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But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most for him who loves us most; but we should measure affection, not like youngsters, by the ardour of its passion, but rather by its strength and constancy.

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For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.

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Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

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In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

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A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.

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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

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