Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
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The best interpreter of the law is custom.
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What is permissible is not always honorable.
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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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Hatred is settled anger.
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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 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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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
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The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
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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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Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.
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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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No obligation to do the impossible is binding.
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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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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
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No one can give you better advice than yourself.
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No sane man will dance.
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You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
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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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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.