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The best interpreter of the law is custom.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophical, Law, Interpreter

Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Support, Nature Love
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “Cicero's Three Books Of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate”, p.206

When they remain silent, they cry out.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Silence, Cry, Silent

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Book, Names, Philosopher

No sane man will dance.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Inspirational, Funny, Dance

The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Use, Virtue, Existence
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1970). “Cicero”

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophical, Slavery

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Freedom, Liberty, Tyranny

The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Family, Children, Ties

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophical, Silence, Denial
"Paulus", L, 17,

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Dignity, Speak, Lows
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1871). “The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.410

Taxes are the sinews of the state.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
States, Taxes

No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Democracy, Novelty, Tempest
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Niall Rudd (2008). “The Republic and The Laws”, p.30, Oxford University Press

Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Feelings, Modesty, Shame
"Rhetorical Invention", Book II, Section LVI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 520-21,

There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art, Eloquence

What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Vanity, Virtue, Fervent

Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Saving, Virtue, Advantage

All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art, Refinement, Mutual

Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Powerful, Age, Body

Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Past, Danger, Recollection

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Superstitions, Destroying
"On Divination". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC.

I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Thinking, Poet, Excellent
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Tusculanarum Disputationum, V, 22, p. 605-09, 1922.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Age, Talkative, Old Age
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.242

Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Superstitions
"De Divinatione", II. 72, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 770-71,

There is not a moment without some duty.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Moments, Duty

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