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Cicero: Quotes
- Ability
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.: Pro Archia Poeta
- Body and Face
The countenance is the portrait of the mind, the eyes are its informers.: De Oratore
- Companionship
If a man could mount to heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had some one to share in his pleasure.: De Amicitia
- Custom and Tradition
Oh, the times! Oh, the customs! (O tempora! O mores!): In Catilinam
- Fame
In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.: Pro Archia Poeta
- Friends and Friendship
A friend is, as it were, a second self.: De Amicitia
- History
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?: Orator
- Inspiration
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.: De Natura Deorum
- Justice
Justice shines by its own light.: De Officiis
- Novelty
Nothing quite new is perfect.: Brutus
- Philosophy
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.: De Divinatione
- Punishment
Let the punishment match the offense.: De Legibus
- War
Laws are silent in time of war.: Pro Milone
- War and Peace
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.: De Officiis