Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word.

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We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

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But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?

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Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.

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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

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It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

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For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

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Let reason govern desire.

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Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

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Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

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To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

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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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Hatred is inveterate anger.

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For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

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Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

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Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

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The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

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