Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

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I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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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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It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

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I am never less alone than when alone.

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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.

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These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.

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For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

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

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

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Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

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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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Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

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Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

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The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men

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No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

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There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.

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