Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 11

• Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.

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  Character, Study, Shame

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• We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

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  Men, Quality, Dignity

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• Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.

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  Men, Failing, Disorder

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• Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

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  Grief, Sorrow, Opinion

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1886). “Tusculan Disputations ...”

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• Let your desires be ruled by reason.

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  Desire, Reason

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• No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

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  Science, Understanding, Speak

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• Let reason govern desire.

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  War, Desire, Reason

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• There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

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  Funny, Philosophical, Philosopher

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• The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

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  Friendship, Laughter, Heart

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• No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

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  Consistency, Opinion, Wells

  "Epistulae ad Atticum (Letters to Atticus)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book XVI, Chapter 7), 68-43 BC.

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• A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

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  Character, Men, Courtesy

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• There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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  Nature, Men, Study

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• For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

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  Life Is Short, Space, Long

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• Time is the herald of truth.

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  Time

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• In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

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  Mind, Stronger, Body

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• I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

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  Talking, Folly, Uneducated

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• Genius is fostered by industry.

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  Genius, Industry

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• Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

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  Time, Nature, Science

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• You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

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  Friends, Real, Circumstances

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1872). “The Academic Questions: Treatise De Finibus and Tusculan Disputations of M. R. Cicero, with a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero”, p.163

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• Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

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  Work, Men, Leisure

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• If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

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  Stars, Men, Feelings

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• When war is raging the laws are dumb.

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  War, Law, Dumb

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• The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.

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  Leader, Principles, Should

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• Let the punishment match the offense.

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  Karma, Forgiveness, Punishment

  De Legibus bk. 3, ch. 20

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• The foundation of justice is good faith.

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  Justice, Foundation, Good Faith

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Patrick Gerard Walsh (2000). “On Obligations”, p.10, Oxford University Press, USA

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