Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

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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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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]

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Old age by nature is rather talkative.

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Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

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For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

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Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

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Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

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Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

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Thrift is a great revenue.

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It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

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So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

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Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

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Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

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There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

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