Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

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. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.

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A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

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There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money.

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This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

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To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

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Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

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These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.

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Thrift is of great revenue.

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Laws are inoperative in war

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I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]

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Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

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I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

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Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

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Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

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Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

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The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

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I hate all children of precocious talent.

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Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

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