Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

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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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The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.

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As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.

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We are not born for ourselves alone.

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While there's life, there's hope.

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These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.

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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

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A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

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If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.

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Economy is a great revenue. [Lat., Magnum vectigal est parsimonia.]

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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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Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

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Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

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Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

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Those who do not know history will forever remain children

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Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

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In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

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What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

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