Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

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Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones.

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The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

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There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.

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Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

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If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.

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In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

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No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

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In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.

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What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

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Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

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To-morrow will give some food for thought.

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

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The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

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Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.

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War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.

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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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