Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

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I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.

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That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

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Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

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Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.

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What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

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The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

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Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only the judges may hear, for instigators are not lacking to stir up the crowd against me, and against all the best citizens. To scorn, in the interest of the Republic, this multitude of Jews so often turbulent in the assemblies shows a singular strength of mind. The money is in the Treasury; they do not accuse us of theft; they seek to stir up hatreds.

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If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

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Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.

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Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.

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History is the teacher of life

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No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

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No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

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Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

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Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.

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The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]

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Always the same thing.

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The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

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There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.

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