Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

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Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

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A wise man does nothing by constraint.

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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

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To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

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The freedom of poetic license.

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The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

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A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

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The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

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Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

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In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.

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Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.

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If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

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We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

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Hmm... That's like telling you about the cold of space, or terror of midnight. Sithis is all those things. He is... the Void.

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For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.

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But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?

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Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.

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