Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

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The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

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Dogs wait for us faithfully.

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If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

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Our liberality should not exceed our ability.

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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

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No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

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Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

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The forehead is the gate of the mind.

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

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As I breathe, I hope.

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Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

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I hate all children of precocious talent.

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Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

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Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

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"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

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After victory, you have more enemies.

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

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