96 Quotations by Cicero
- 61. Reason should direct and appetite obey.
- 62. Strain every nerve to gain your point.
- 63. Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient.
- 64. The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.
- 65. The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.
- 66. The beginnings of all things are small.
- 67. The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unche ...
- 68. The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
- 69. The freedom of poetic license.
- 70. The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, ...
- 71. The more laws, the less justice.
- 72. The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference betw ...
- 73. The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorit ...
- 74. The people's good is the highest law.
- 75. The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite
- 76. The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
- 77. The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.
- 78. The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
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- 79. The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brute ...
- 80. There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retr ...
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