Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
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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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A friend is, as it were, a second self.
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Empire and liberty.
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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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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
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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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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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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.
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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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The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
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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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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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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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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.
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An unjust peace is better than a just war.
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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
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What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.