Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

• Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

• Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

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  Topics in God, Soul

• It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

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• It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

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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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• In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

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• In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

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• In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

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• In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

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• In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

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• If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

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• 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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• 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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• I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

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• I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

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• Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

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• Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

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  Topics in Education

• A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

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• The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

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• Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most blessed and heavenly effect, truly, if it eases us of what in youth was the sorest plague of life.

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Marcus Tullius Cicero (208)

Birth:	106 BC
Death:	43 BC
Nationality:	Roman
Profession:	Lawyer, Philosopher, Statesman, Theorist

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