Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.

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The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

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What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

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It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

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The spirit is the true self.

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Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

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The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

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Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

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Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

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For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than #‎ agriculture

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I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

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It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

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Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

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I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.

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