Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

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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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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.

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A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

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That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.

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I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

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The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.

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Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.

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Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

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No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

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We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

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Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]

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An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

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The human mind ever longs for occupation.

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What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

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The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

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The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

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

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To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

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