Cicero Quotes

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
- Cicero

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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
- Cicero

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
- Cicero

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.
- Cicero

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.
- Cicero

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
- Cicero

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
- Cicero

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
- Cicero

To give counsel as well as to take it is a feature of true friendship.
- Cicero

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
- Cicero

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
- Cicero

An unjust peace is better than a just war.
- Cicero

When they hold their tongues they cry out.
- Cicero

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
- Cicero

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
- Cicero

In the approach to virtue there are many steps.
- Cicero

Honor is the reward of virtue.
- Cicero

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
- Cicero

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.
- Cicero

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
- Cicero

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
- Cicero

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
- Cicero

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.
- Cicero

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.
- Cicero

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
Cicero

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