Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est

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Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

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For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

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

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Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]

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If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

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For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.

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We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.

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I am a Roman citizen.

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There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.

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An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

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A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

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Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

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Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

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Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all.

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Pardon is granted to necessity.

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The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

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Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

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The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

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