Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

Marcus Tullius Cicero

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There are no snares more dangerous than those which lurk under the guise of duty or the name of relationship.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

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The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

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In times of war, the law falls silent.

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Amicitiae nostrae memoriam spero sempiternam fore

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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief

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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

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My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable.

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Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.)

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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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To be ignorant of history is to remain always a child.

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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.

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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

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He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life.

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What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

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