Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.

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Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

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In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

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The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]

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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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If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

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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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It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

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We all are imbued with the love of praise.

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Economy is a great revenue. [Lat., Magnum vectigal est parsimonia.]

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I am never less alone than when alone.

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The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

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The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

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I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

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He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

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Certain signs precede certain events.

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Let reason govern desire.

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