Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly said, "that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law is a silent magistrate.

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He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.

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When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

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Nature abhors annihilation.

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What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

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I am a Roman citizen.

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There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

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Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]

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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

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There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

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No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

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Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

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Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.

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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

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Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.

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Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

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Let us not go over the old ground but rather prepare for what is to come.

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This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

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Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

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