Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

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He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

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Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]

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Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

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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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Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only the judges may hear, for instigators are not lacking to stir up the crowd against me, and against all the best citizens. To scorn, in the interest of the Republic, this multitude of Jews so often turbulent in the assemblies shows a singular strength of mind. The money is in the Treasury; they do not accuse us of theft; they seek to stir up hatreds.

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The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

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The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

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That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

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It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

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Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

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The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.

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Work makes a callus against grief.

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We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

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It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.

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If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

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A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

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There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

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For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

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