Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

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What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.

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We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

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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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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

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Generosity should never exceed ability.

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A letter does not blush.

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All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

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No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

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We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.

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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

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In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.

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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

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To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

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It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

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The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

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The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

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No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

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