Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

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Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery.

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The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.

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Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

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It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane.

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Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

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I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.

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Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

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There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

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Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

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Through doubt we arrive at the truth.

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O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!

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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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The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

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Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

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It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

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Pardon is granted to necessity.

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Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

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When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

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