Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

• Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

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• A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.

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• As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

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• That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

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• All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

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• The good of the people is the greatest law.

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• In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

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• The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

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• The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

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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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• No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

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• Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

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• Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

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• Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

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• People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

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• Thrift is of great revenue.

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• 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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• An unjust peace is better than a just war.

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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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• A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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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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