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A nation can survive its fools...

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

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

Armed forces abroad are of lit...

Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

I cannot find a faithful messa...

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer,' he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. 'How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

Ill gotten gains will be ill s...

Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

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The purpose of education is to...

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

The avarice of the old: it's a...

The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

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For out of such an ungoverned ...

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.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

You might as well take the sun...

You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

Fire and water are not of more...

Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

There are two ways to resolve ...

There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

Nobody can give you wiser advi...

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

Be a pattern to others and the...

Be a pattern to others and then all will go well.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

Though liberty is established ...

Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the 'general welfare of the people.' Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

The home is the empire! There ...

The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

The wise man never loses his t...

The wise man never loses his temper.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

Too much liberty leads both me...

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

Let a man practice the profess...

Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

No power is strong enough to b...

No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.

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Nothing troubles you for which...

Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

All the arts of refinement hav...

All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

Marcus Cicero 1236 quotes

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