Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

A community is like the ones who govern it.

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

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To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

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No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

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For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

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So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

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In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.

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The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

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Frugality includes all the other virtues.

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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]

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A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.

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To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

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In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.

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Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]

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You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.

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Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.

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Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

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The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.

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For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.

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