Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.

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When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.

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This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.

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There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

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True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

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Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

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From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.

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

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It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

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Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

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The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

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The more laws, the less justice.

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The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

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A home without books is a body without soul.

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The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

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What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

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Laws are inoperative in war

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I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]

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