Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

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Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

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Man's best support is a very dear friend.

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Generosity should never exceed ability.

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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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Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

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There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]

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The science of love is the philosophy of the heart

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Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

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Whatever you do, do with all your might.

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Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

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The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

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It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

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I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

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Calamus fortior gladio.

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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]

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Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturæ judicia confirmat. Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.

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

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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

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