Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

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A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

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What is more agreeable than one's home?

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Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

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A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

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

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That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.

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Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

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Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones.

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It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

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There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.

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If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]

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Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.

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For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.

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I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

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

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Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.

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