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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman • Statesman
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Showing 66 quotesIf 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.— Marcus Tullius Cicero
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Wisdom
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Education
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.— Marcus Tullius Cicero