Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

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

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Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.

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Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

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Thrift is a great revenue.

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

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As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap.

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Ability without honor is useless.

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O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]

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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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Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

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Man's best support is a very dear friend.

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There were poets before Homer.

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The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

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A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.

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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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There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

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