Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

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If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

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Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

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

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Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

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Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.

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Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

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There is not a moment without some duty.

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There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.

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For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

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Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

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When war is raging the laws are dumb.

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Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.

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Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

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A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

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Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

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The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

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Hatred is inveterate anger.

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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

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