| 169 Famous Quotes by Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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“Let a man practise the profession he best knows.
[Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]”
Occupations Quotes Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 18)
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“It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot
pregnant.”
Occupations Quotes Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 18)
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“The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the
soul of man.
[Lat., Animi cultus quasi quidam humanitatis cibus.]”
Mind Quotes Source: De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (V, 19)
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“The forehead is the gate of the mind.
[Lat., Frons est animi janua.]”
Mind Quotes Source: Oratio De Provinciis Consularibus (XI)
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“The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those
of the body.
[Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]”
Mind Quotes Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (III, 3)
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“In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can
not exist.
[Lat., In animo perturbato, sicut in corpore, sanitas esse non
potest.]”
Mind Quotes Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (III, 4)
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“But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is
to be regarded as the law of nature.
[Lat., Omni autem in re consensio omnium gentium lex naturae
putanda est.]”
Opinion Quotes Source: Tusc. Quoest. (I, 13, 30)
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“Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.
[Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]”
Reason Quotes Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (II, 21)
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“Our country is the common parent of all.
[Lat., Patria est communis omnium parens.]”
Patriotism Quotes Source: Orationes in Catilinam (I, 7)
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“Our country is wherever we are well off.
[Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]”
Patriotism Quotes Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (V, 37), quoting Pacuvius
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“To freemen, threats are impotent.
[Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]”
Freedom Quotes Source: Epistles (XI, 3)
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“Our country is wherever we are well off.
[Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]”
Love of country Quotes Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (V, 37), quoting Pacuvius
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“War leads to peace.
[Lat., Cedant arma togae.]”
Peace Quotes Source: De Officiis (I, 22)
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“For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of
more service than civil war.
[Lat., Mihi enim omnis pax cum civibus bello civili utilior
videbatur.]”
Peace Quotes Source: Philippicoe (2, 15, 37)
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“Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
[Lat., Memoria est thesaurus omnium rerum e custos.]”
Memory Quotes Source: De Oratore (I, 5)
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“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
[Lat., Vita enim mortuorum in memoria vivorum est posita.]”
Memory Quotes Source: Philippicoe (IX, 5)
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“By some fortuitous concourse of atoms.
[Lat., Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum.]”
Circumstance Quotes Source: De Natura Deorum (bk. I, 24)
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“It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.
[Lat., Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia.]”
Fortune Quotes Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (LIX)
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“As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap.
[Sp., Ut sementem feceris, ita metes.]”
Results Quotes Source: De Oratore (II, 65)
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“We are all exited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most
influenced by glory.
[Lat., Trahimur omnes laudis studio, et optimus quisque maxime
gloria ducitur.]”
Praise Quotes Source: Oratio Pro Licinio Archia (XI)
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“I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father.
[Words used by Hector.]
[Lat., Laetus sum
Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]”
Praise Quotes Source: Oratio Pro Licinio Archia (XI)
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“To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a
fool.
[Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in
errore perseverare.]”
Errors Quotes Source: Philippicoe (XII, 2)
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“By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much
you value, than to be right in the company of such men.
[Lat., Errare mehercule malo cum Platone, quem tu quanti facias,
scio quam cum istis vera sentire.]”
Errors Quotes Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 17)
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“That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering
pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and
imitation of virtue.
[Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium
impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque
virtutis.]”
Virtue Quotes Source: Academici (IV, 46)
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“Honor is the reward of virtue.
[Lat., Honor est premium virtutis.]”
Virtue Quotes Source: Brutus (LXXXI)
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