Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.

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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

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Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

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The first bond of society is marriage.

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

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I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]

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

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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 most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.

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We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.

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The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

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There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.

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The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

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Unraveling the web of Penelope.

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Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.

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True nobility is exempt from fear.

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Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.

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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

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Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

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