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Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Before beginning, plan carefully....

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Empire and liberty....

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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education....

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow....

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Hatred is inveterate anger....

Hatred is settled anger....

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He only employs his passion who can make no use...

Honor is the reward of virtue....

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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant...

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault....

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I never heard of an old man forgetting where he...

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity....

If I err in belief that the souls of men...

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should...

If you have a garden and a library, you have...

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If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away...

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness...

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that...

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be...

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy....

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures....

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not...

In so far as the mind is stronger than the...

In time of war the laws are silent....

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as...

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that...

It is the nature of every person to error, but...

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive...

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Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills...

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in...

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning...

Laws are silent in time of war....

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Like associates with like....

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front...

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by...

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things....

More law, less justice....

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory...

Nature abhors annihilation....

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to...

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide....

Never injure a friend, even in jest....

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are...

No obligation to do the impossible is binding....

No one can give you better advice than yourself....

No one has the right to be sorry for himself...

No one was ever great without some portion of divine...

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there...

No sane man will dance....

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself....

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage....

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Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken...

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O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you...

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is...

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act....

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in...

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak....

Our character is not so much the product of race...

Peace is liberty in tranquillity....

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is....

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age....

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn...

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom....

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation....

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man...

Sweet is the memory of past troubles....

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the...

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but...

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and...

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle...

The best interpreter of the law is custom....

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the...

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our...

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the...

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true....

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and...

The good of the people is the greatest law....

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory....

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust....

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance...

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should...

The life of the dead is placed in the memory...

The long time to come when I shall not exist...

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges...

The more laws, the less justice....

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him...

The only excuse for war is that we may live...

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly,...

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be...

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy...

The safety of the people shall be the highest law....

The sinews of war are infinite money....

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will...

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be...

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience,...

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature....

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not...

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands...

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For...

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat....

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not...

Thrift is of great revenue....

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature....

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born...

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter...

To live is to think....

To some extent I liken slavery to death....

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences,...

True nobility is exempt from fear....

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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and...

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings....

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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us....

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What is permissible is not always honorable....

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine....

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What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he...

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What then is freedom? The power to live as one...

Whatever you do, do with all your might....

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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the...

While there's life, there's hope....

You will be as much value to others as you...