Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

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A community is like the ones who govern it.

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Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

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The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.

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In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

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All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

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Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

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What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

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Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

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The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

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Old age by nature is rather talkative.

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The whole of virtue consists in its practice.

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Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.

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As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.

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That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.

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The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

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The spirit is the true self.

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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

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