Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

• Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, “Of the world”; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

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• If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

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• Nothing common can seem worthy of you.

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• We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

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• A man of courage is also full of faith.

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• As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

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• Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

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• It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

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• He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

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• No sane man will dance.

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• What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

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• The more laws, the less justice.

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• There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

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• It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

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• Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

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• What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

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• Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

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• Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

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• I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

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• It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

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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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