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Quotes from Cicero

Wickedness consists in the very hesitation about an act, even though it be not perpetrated.
~ Cicero
Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.
~ Cicero
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed.
~ Cicero
A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.
~ Cicero
The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
~ Cicero
It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.
~ Cicero
No well-informed person ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.
~ Cicero
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves even in those books which they write in contempt of glory inscribe their names.
~ Cicero
A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
~ Cicero
Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.
~ Cicero
There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it
~ Cicero
Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.)
~ Cicero
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.
~ Cicero
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
~ Cicero
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
~ Cicero
No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus.
~ Cicero
If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
~ Cicero
Laws are silent in times of war.
~ Cicero
It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.
~ Cicero
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
~ Cicero
A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
~ Cicero
A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
~ Cicero
Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
~ Cicero
All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.
~ Cicero