Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse.]

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The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

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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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For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

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

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Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.

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The foundation of justice is good faith.

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Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

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

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What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

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Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

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The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

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The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

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More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.

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No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

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Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

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The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.

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Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

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For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

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