Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.

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To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]

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All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

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Let the punishment match the offense.

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Hunger is the best sauce.

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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

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"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

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Nothing quite new is perfect.

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Laws are silent in time of war.

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Thrift is a great revenue.

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These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.

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For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

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I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

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

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In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

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For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

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Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

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A wise man does nothing by constraint.

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There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.

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