Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Roman - Statesman | 106 BC - 43 BC

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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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.

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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

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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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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

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

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Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

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

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Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

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