Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

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Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

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The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong

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As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.

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Do nothing twice over.

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Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]

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Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

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Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.

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Time is the herald of truth.

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...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

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By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

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No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

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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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An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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Our thoughts are free.

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

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