Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

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To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

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A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

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If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

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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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Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?

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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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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

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Strain every nerve to gain your point.

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For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

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Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

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When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.

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The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

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Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home

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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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Generosity should never exceed ability.

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Let us not go over the old ground but rather prepare for what is to come.

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In times of war, the law falls silent.

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Our liberality should not exceed our ability.

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Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

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