Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
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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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No sane man will dance.
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
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No one can give you better advice than yourself.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
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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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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
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True nobility is exempt from fear.
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For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
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You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
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I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
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Before beginning, plan carefully.
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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.
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
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If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
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A friend is, as it were, a second self.
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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.