Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

• 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 prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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

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• I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

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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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• Honor is the reward of virtue.

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• He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

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

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• Hatred is settled anger.

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• Hatred is inveterate anger.

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

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• Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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• Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

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• Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

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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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• For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

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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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