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Love Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

109 Love quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Pardon is granted to necessity, showing how excuses can soften judgment. Cicero also observes that people love praise, and that doubt can guide us toward truth. These ideas mix practical concerns with deeper reflections on desire, wisdom, and the role of fortune.

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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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Always the same thing.

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Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

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

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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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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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To stumble twice against the same stone is a Proverbsial disgrace.

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Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

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It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

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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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Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

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Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

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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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You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

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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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Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

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We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If…

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In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply…

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The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive…

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Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I…

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But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most…

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Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that…

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It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold…

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As I breathe, I hope.

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

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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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Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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Genius is fostered by industry.

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Let your desires be ruled by reason.

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Pardon is granted to necessity.

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

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