Cicero Short Quotes

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Nature shrinks from destruction.
In Latin: Ab interitu naturam abhorrere

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Rome, fortunately natal 'neath my consulship!

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Almost no one dances sober, unless he is insane.

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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

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How long, Catiline, will you abuse our patience?

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He has departed, withdrawn, gone away, broken out.

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But things that happen by chance cannot be certain.

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We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.

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What kind of favor is it to abstain from doing evil?

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To what length will you abuse our patience, Catiline?

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'He himself said', and this 'himself' was Pythagoras.

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The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.

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We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

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Let arms yield to the toga, the laurel crown to praise.

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For it is commonly said: completed labours are pleasant.

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He departed, he withdrew, he strode off, he broke forth.

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I should prefer uneloquent good sense to loquacious folly

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Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

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The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

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There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.

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The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

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The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body.

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For the life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

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Honorable things, not secretive things, are sought by good men.

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No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.

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There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it.

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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

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There is said to be hope for a sick man, as long as there is life.

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