Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Generosity should never exceed ability.

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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

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

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I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

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Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.

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Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

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For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

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Taxes are the sinews of the state.

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

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It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

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Friends, though absent, are still present.

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It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.

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Before beginning, prepare carefully.

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Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.

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Ability without honor is useless.

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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

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Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.

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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

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The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

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