Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.... Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don't wait till freedom is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect and make the most of it!

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Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

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Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

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Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

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The real friend is another self.

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Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

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They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

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The freedom of poetic license.

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They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

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The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

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Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

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A home without books is a body without soul.

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The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.

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A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

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The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

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It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.

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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

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If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

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