Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

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Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

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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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As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.

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Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

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The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

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We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

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Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

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Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

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I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]

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

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Everyone has his besetting sin.

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No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.

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When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

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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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Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

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Our liberality should not exceed our ability.

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I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]

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If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

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