Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.

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According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

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The first bond of society is marriage.

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Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

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Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

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No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

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Hatred is a settled anger.

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We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

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If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

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Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]

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Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.

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

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Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]

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Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

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Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake.

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There is no thing which God cannot accomplish.

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No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

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