Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

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The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.

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Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

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No sober person dances.

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It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

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The spirit is the true self.

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The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

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Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]

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In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.

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For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

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Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

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I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

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The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.

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Generosity should never exceed ability.

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Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.

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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

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The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.

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That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

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No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.

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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

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