Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.

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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]

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You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

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For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

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I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]

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The human mind ever longs for occupation.

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Nature has inclined us to love men.

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Like associates with like.

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No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

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Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

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I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.

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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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Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.

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

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Unraveling the web of Penelope.

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Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

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To-morrow will give some food for thought.

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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

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A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

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