Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.

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All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

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Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.

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Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

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Everything is alive... Everything is interconnected.

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A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

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Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.

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

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The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

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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 best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

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Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

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I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

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Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

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In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

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History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

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Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

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The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.

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Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

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We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

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