Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

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All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

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Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.

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I hate all children of precocious talent.

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

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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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The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

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It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

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Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

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A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

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No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

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Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

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There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

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The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

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No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

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For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.

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While there's life, there's hope.

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Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

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Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

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The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.

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