Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

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No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

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Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

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The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

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There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

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He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

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Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

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Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

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

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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

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If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

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A true friend is a sort of second self.

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It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

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History is the teacher of life

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There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

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Man is his own worst enemy.

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Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

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