Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

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In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

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Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

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No sane man will dance.

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There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

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Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

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A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.

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There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

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All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

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Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

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The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.

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Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

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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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To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

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How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!

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When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!

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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

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As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.

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