Cicero quotes - page 4

For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly? (Cicero)
I should prefer uneloquent good sense to loquacious folly.
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I have always been of the opinion that infamy earned by doing what is right is not infamy at all, but glory.
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Can you also, Lucullus, affirm that there is any power united with wisdom and prudence which has made, or, to use your own expression, manufactured man? What sort of a manufacture is that? Where is it exercised? when? why? how?
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Laws are silent in time of war.
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Almost no one dances sober, unless he is insane.
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Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.
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The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what power they exercise through their unions. They are a nation of rascals and deceivers.
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Arms are of little value in the field unless there is wise counsel at home.
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Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.
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True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting. (Cicero)
The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.
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Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.
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Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.
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Genius is fostered by industry.
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History is the teacher of life.
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We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.
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Man is his own worst enemy.
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History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.
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Old age is by nature rather talkative.
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He who suffers, remembers. (Cicero)
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
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Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
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In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
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No man is so old as to think he can't live one more year.
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