Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

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Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.

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No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

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The more laws, the less justice.

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That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

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For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

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To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.

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Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

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When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

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

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Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

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There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

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A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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