Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit

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Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

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In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

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

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The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.

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Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

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It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

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Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

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I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

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War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]

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Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

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To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

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When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

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The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.

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No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

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For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

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Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.

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Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

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