Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

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Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

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Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

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We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.

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Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.

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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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The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

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What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.

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Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

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Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

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Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

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To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

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It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

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This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.

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Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

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Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

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For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.

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For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

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