Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

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So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

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The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.

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A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

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

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The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."

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In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

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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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He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.

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Judge not by the number, but by the weight.

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Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

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There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

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Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.

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That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but he who has acknowledged a kindness has it still, and he who has a feeling of it has requited it.

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Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

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In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

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That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.

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History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

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I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

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