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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• 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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• Let reason govern desire.

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  War, Desire, Reason

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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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• The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

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  Philosophical, Blessing, Growth

  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.249

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

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  Nature, Men, Study

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• History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

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  Teacher, Memories, Light

  "On the Orator". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 BC.

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• The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

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  Heart, Land, Soil

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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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• When war is raging the laws are dumb.

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  War, Law, Dumb

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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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• Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

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  Time, Nature, Philosophical

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• Time is the herald of truth.

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  Time

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• Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

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  Powerful, Age, Body

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• Let your desires be ruled by reason.

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  Desire, Reason

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• The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

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  Past, Men, Yield

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

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  Character, Men, Courtesy

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• History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

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  Memories, Reality, History Of Life

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• Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

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  Mistake, Men, Fool

  Philippica XII, ii, 5,

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• Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

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  Philosopher, Absurd, Said

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• There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
  [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]

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  Grief, Doe

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