Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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Let reason govern desire.

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

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Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

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The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]

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Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word.

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There is not a moment without some duty.

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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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For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

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The first bond of society is marriage.

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

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

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All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

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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 am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]

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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 comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.

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There is nothing god cannot do.

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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

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