Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.
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No one can give you better advice than yourself.
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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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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
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We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
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A friend is, as it were, a second self.
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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
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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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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
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True nobility is exempt from fear.
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I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
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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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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
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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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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.