Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

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No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

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We are born poets. we become orators.

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By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

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The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

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Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

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Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.

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Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

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True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

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That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

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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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Unraveling the web of Penelope.

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The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

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We are not born for ourselves alone.

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That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

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If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole system of credit and finance which is carried on here at Rome in the Forum, is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province. If Those revenues are destroyed, our whole system of credit will come down with a crash.

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Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

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Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

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