Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
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To live is to think.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
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Ability without honor is useless.
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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
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Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
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Laws are silent in time of war.
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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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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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The best interpreter of the law is custom.
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In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.
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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
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According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.