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Inspirational Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

168 Inspirational quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion. Cicero's lines discuss how justice depends on preventing wrongs, how doubt can lead to truth, and how fortune, not wisdom, often guides lives. He also warns that corrupt minds twist everything, and that even a soldier must try to act properly.

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I am a Roman citizen.

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Let reason govern desire.

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Unraveling the web of Penelope.

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What is dignity without honesty?

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Thrift is a great revenue.

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Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

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The popular breeze - Aura popularis

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Always the same thing.

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The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.

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There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

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Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

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Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

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In the approach to virtue there are many steps.

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I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

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Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

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A community is like the ones who govern it.

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We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

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Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

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This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of…

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It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

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I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

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The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.

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Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

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Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the…

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I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received,…

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Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

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To freemen, threats are impotent.

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As I breathe, I hope.

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

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Virtue is its own reward.

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No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

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Through doubt we arrive at the truth.

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Strain every nerve to gain your point.

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No one has leave to sin.

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Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

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Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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Generosity should never exceed ability.

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Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

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O philosophy, you leader of life.

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This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

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“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”

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Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione…

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Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

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Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

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Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than…

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The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.

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“The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.”

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Pardon is granted to necessity.

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Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and…

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History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

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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…

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Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

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