Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

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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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The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

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He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

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Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

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So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

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Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

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For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

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Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

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In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

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Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.

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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

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It is a great thing to know your vices.

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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.

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Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

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Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

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The freedom of poetic license.

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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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When they remain silent, they cry out.

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So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

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