Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

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

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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

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No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.

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That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but he who has acknowledged a kindness has it still, and he who has a feeling of it has requited it.

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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

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Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

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How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

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Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

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The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."

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What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?

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I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

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It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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History is the teacher of life

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It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

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I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

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There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

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For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

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A wise man does nothing by constraint.

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