Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

They condemn what they do not understand.

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"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

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There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

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Nature abhors annihilation.

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In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

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When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

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If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.

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What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

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To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

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Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.

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All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

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I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.

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Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

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A true friend is a sort of second self.

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It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.

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It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

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Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.

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Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.

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I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

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