Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

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Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

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Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.

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No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.

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How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?

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It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.

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It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.

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I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

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The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.

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Justice renders to every one his due.

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Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

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The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

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For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.

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Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

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What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

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Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

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Dogs wait for us faithfully.

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Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

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The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

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True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

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