Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.

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If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

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No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]

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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

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The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

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O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]

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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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To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.

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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

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A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

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Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word.

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Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.

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I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

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There is not a moment without some duty.

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Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.

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In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

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True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

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Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.

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