Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

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Time is the herald of truth.

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For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.

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The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.

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Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

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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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What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

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The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

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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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Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

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Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

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We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.

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It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

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If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

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Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and should not be admitted for a moment. We should ask from friends and do for friends only what is good.

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But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

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It is necessary for a Senator to be thoroughly acquainted with the constitution; and this is a knowledge of the most extensive nature; a matter of science, of diligence, of reflection, without which no Senator can possibly be fit for his office.

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True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.

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The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

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Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

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