Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.

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By doubting we come at truth.

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Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.

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The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.

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A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

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Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

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

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Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.

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When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

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On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so.

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Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

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The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

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Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

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But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most for him who loves us most; but we should measure affection, not like youngsters, by the ardour of its passion, but rather by its strength and constancy.

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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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It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

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Man must suffer to be wise.

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