Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

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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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Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

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The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.

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Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

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If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

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Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.

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Let your desires be ruled by reason.

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In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

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I am a Roman citizen.

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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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No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.

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The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

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Laws are silent in time of war.

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Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.

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Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

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All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

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