Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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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Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.

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The sinews of war are infinite money.

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When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

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There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

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Strict law is often great injustice.

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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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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 a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.

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Thrift is a great revenue.

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Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

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The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

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The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

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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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No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

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To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

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In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

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

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