Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.

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

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We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.

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Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

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Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war.

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The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

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Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones.

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It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

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Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

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All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

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Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

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No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]

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Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

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In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.

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The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

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Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

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To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child

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In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

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