Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

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Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?

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All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

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For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

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For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

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Man is his own worst enemy.

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The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

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Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

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Life is short, but art lives forever.

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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

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In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.

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He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

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No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

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The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business.

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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

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