Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

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There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

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Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

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That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.

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For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.

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What is permissible is not always honorable.

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Economy is a great revenue. [Lat., Magnum vectigal est parsimonia.]

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Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

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I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

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We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

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Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]

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Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

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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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Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.

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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

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That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

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Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

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If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

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Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.

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