Cicero Quotes

"The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death."
-Cicero in Peace quotes.

"Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature."
-Cicero in Art quotes.

"Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it."
-Cicero in Friendship quotes.

"Let your desires be ruled by reason. (Appetitus Rationi Pareat)."
-Cicero in Desire quotes.

"To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches."
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"In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory."
-Cicero in Desire quotes.

"The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct."
-Cicero in Instinct quotes.

"Reason should direct and appetite obey."
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"As the old proverb says 'Like readily consorts with like.'"
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"There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it."
-Cicero in Philosophy quotes.

"I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature."
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"By force of arms. (Vi Et Armis)."
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"To each his own. (Suum Cuique)."
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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."
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"The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness."
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"Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger."
-Cicero in Body quotes.

"The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends."
-Cicero in Friendship quotes.

"I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity."
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"Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide."
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"A friend is, as it were, a second self."
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"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
-Cicero in Books quotes.

"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
-Cicero in Courage quotes.

"When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind."
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"Laws are silent in times of war."
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"A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age."
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"To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?"
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"We must not say every mistake is a foolish one."
-Cicero in Mistakes quotes.