Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Biography : Roman politician and lawyer.
Born: -106 - Died: -43
Period:
1st century BC
2nd century BC
Place of birth: Italy
Italy

Italy

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Quotes

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
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True nobility is exempt from fear.
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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
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According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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silence

The more laws, the less justice.
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Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.
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Nature abhors annihilation.
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nature

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
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Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
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To some extent I liken slavery to death.
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death

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
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soul

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.
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Hatred is inveterate anger.
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anger

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
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The best interpreter of the law is custom.
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We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
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universe

Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
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In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
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health

Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.
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An unjust peace is better than a just war.
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Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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wisdom

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
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truth

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
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