Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

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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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One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.

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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

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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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No man in his senses will dance.

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Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.

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The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.

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If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

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For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

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There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

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Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

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As I breathe, I hope.

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Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

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

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Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.

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Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.

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I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

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Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

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Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.

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