Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

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The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

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Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

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All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

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To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]

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In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.

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Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.]

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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

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I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]

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Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

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Life without learning is death.

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Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

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Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.

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They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

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To some extent I liken slavery to death.

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Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

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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 man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

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