Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit

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In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.

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No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

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Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

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Pardon is granted to necessity.

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

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There is nothing god cannot do.

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The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

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Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.

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No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

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He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

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After victory, you have more enemies.

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There is no moment without some duty.

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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]

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For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

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The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]

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These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.

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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

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