Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

There is not a moment without some duty.

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The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

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The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

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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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We are born poets. we become orators.

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Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

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He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

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If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

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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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Never injure a friend, even in jest.

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Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already.

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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

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A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

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Man must suffer to be wise.

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It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

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Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.

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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

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Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

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