| 29 Famous Quotes by Cicero
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“When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.”
Faith Quotes |
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“Virtue is its own reward.”
Inspirational Quotes |
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“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all
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“The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.”
History Quotes |
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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Books Quotes |
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“Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.”
Brevity Quotes |
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“Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.”
Brevity Quotes |
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“Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.”
Credit Quotes |
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“Man is his own worst enemy.”
Enemy Quotes |
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“Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.”
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“Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.”
Freedom Quotes |
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“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”
Gratitude Quotes |
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“It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”
Grief Quotes |
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“The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.”
Guilt Quotes |
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“Hatred is settled anger.”
Hate Quotes |
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“When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.”
Law Quotes |
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“He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.”
Leisure Quotes |
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“The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.”
Leisure Quotes |
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“We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free.”
Liberty Quotes |
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“A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.”
Literature Quotes |
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“A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.”
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“The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.”
Moderation Quotes |
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“Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.”
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“He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.”
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“True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.”
Pretension Quotes |
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Cicero Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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