Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

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No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

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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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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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Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

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Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]

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A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

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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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You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

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Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

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They condemn what they do not understand.

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If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

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If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

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That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]

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Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.

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It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

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No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

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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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A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

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Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

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