Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

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The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

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I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

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My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

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. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.

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Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.

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Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

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Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

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Hmm... That's like telling you about the cold of space, or terror of midnight. Sithis is all those things. He is... the Void.

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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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In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.

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Those who do not know history will forever remain children

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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]

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Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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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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The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

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The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.

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