Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

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It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

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An unjust peace is better than a just war.

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Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

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Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

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The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

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What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

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

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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

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Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

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The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.

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A wise man does nothing by constraint.

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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

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Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.

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There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

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But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?

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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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Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.

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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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Laws are inoperative in war

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