Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
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The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
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Hatred is settled anger.
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The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
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Empire and liberty.
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Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.
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What is permissible is not always honorable.
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
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It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
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True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
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The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
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An unjust peace is better than a just war.
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We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.