Marcus Tullius Cicero
Quotations
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“Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“In time of war the laws are silent.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.” -Marcus…
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“Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“The more laws, the less justice.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“A home without books is a body without soul.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.” -Marcus…
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“Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“A man of courage is also full of faith.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“A man of courage is also full of faith.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“The best interpreter of the law is custom.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Hatred is settled anger.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
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