Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

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It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.

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All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

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Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

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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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Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

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If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

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No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

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Kindness is produced by kindness.

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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

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He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

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The wise man never loses his temper.

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No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

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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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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

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Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

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The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

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It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

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They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

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