Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

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Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

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We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

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What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

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The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

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Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]

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Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

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Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

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Our liberality should not exceed our ability.

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An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

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In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

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Nature abhors annihilation.

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Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

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Work makes a callus against grief.

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The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

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There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

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For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

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Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am the jester. The soul that has served as my constant companion for so long has breached the veil of the Void finally and forever. It is now in me. It is me. The world has seen the last of Cicero the man. Behold Cicero, Fool of Hearts - laughter incarnate!

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