Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.

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I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

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It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

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Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.

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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

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All great men are partially inspired.

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It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

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Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

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Let your desires be ruled by reason.

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Freedom is participation in power.

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]

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Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only the judges may hear, for instigators are not lacking to stir up the crowd against me, and against all the best citizens. To scorn, in the interest of the Republic, this multitude of Jews so often turbulent in the assemblies shows a singular strength of mind. The money is in the Treasury; they do not accuse us of theft; they seek to stir up hatreds.

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For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

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If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

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Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest.

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We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

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Thrift is of great revenue.

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Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

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He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

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