Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
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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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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
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What is permissible is not always honorable.
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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
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Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.
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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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Hatred is settled anger.
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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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No sane man will dance.
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No obligation to do the impossible is binding.
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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
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The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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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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Empire and liberty.
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I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
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A friend is, as it were, a second self.
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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.