Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 2

• We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

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• Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

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  Thank You, Time, Children

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• It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

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  Enough, Acquire

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• A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

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  Dog, Stupid, Boys

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• When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

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  Philosophical, Law, Abuse

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

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  Love, Life, Family

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1975). “De officiis”, Loeb Classical Library

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• The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what power they exercise through their unions. They are a nation of rascals and deceivers.

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  Exercise, Dark, Together

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• They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

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  Justice, Forever, Brotherhood

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• Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

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  Learning, Waiting, Mind

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• The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.

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  Memories, Love You, Heart

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• More laws, less justice.

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  Law, Justice, Liberty

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• I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

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  Opinion, Glory

  Cicero,, Marcus Tullius Cicero, D.H. Berry (2009). “Political Speeches”, p.167, Oxford University Press

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• To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

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  Children, Life And Love, Philosophical

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1962). “Brutus”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Life without learning is death.

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• Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

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  Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

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• Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

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  Hype, Obscure, Intention

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• A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

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  Tyrants, Ambitious, Fool

  Speaking to the Roman Senate, as recorded by Sallust in The Catiline War (c. 40 b.c.). This quotation is a favorite of CIA counterintelligence officers.

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• People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.... Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don't wait till freedom is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect and make the most of it!

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  Gratitude, People, Support

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• It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

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  Character, Reflection, Words Of Wisdom

  On Old Age VI (transl. W. A. Falconer)

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• The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

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  Life, Military, Glory

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero (2006). “De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

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  Respect, Courage, Adversity

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• Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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• In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

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  Philosophical, Power, Majority

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• Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

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  Latin, Law, People

  "De Legibus (On the Laws)" book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book III, section 3),

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• For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

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  Men, Tyrants, People

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