Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

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The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.

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True nobility is exempt from fear.

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Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

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

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A community is like the ones who govern it.

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Calamus fortior gladio.

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Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all.

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Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.

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Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.

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Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

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Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

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There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

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There is no life without friendship

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Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

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If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

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Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

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A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

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Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

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

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