Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]

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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

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Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

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An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

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He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

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

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That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]

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No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.

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Can you also, Lucullus, affirm that there is any power united with wisdom and prudence which has made, or, to use your own expression, manufactured man? What sort of a manufacture is that? Where is it exercised? when? why? how?

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It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.

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A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.

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

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The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.

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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.

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Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

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It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

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After victory, you have more enemies.

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