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Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.”

“Justice shines by its own light”

“Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.”

“I criticize by creation, not by finding fault”

“They condemn what they do not understand”

“It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.”

“Let the punishment match the offense.”

“The safety of the people shall be the highest law.”

“We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free”

“No one can give you better advice than yourself.”

“Leisure with dignity.”

“The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.”

“The law in Athens is true in Rome”

While theres life, theres hope.

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

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

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

O philosophy, lifes guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life.

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.