Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

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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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To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

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A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

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Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

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I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

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Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

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O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]

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He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

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No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

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It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

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Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.

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For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

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Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

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