Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.

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Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

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But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

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Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

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To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

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Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

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

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The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

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Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.

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We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If good will and affection are taken away, every joy is taken from life.

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Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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Genius is fostered by industry.

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For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

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I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

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"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

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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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Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

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To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

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