Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 12

• There is nothing which God cannot do.
  [Lat., Nihil est quod deus efficere non possit.]

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  God

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• For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

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  Book, Heart, Past

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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 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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• Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.

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  Enjoyed

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

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  Time, Nature, Philosophical

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• For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

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  Stupidity, Lust, Cowardice

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1853). “The treatises of M.T. Cicero on the nature of the gods [tr. by T.Francklin]; on divination; on fate; on the republic; on the laws; and on standing for the consulship, tr. chiefly by the ed. C.D.Yonge [and F.Barham].”, p.420

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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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• An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

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  Class, Brain, Want

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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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• 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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• As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

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  Religious, Philosopher, Rational

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• The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

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  Life, Men, Doe

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1857). “Cicero's Three Books of Offices: Or Moral Duties; Also His Cato Major ... Laelius ... Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Tr., with Notes ...”, p.311

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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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• Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.

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  Art, Medicine, Sick

  "De Natura Deorum", II. 4, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 502-04,

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• To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.

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  True Friend, Giving, Wells

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• We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.

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  Country, Real, Share

  "De Officiis Book I, section 22". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, October–November 44 BC.

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• The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.

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  House, Dignity, Should

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• There is no place more delightful than home.

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  Home, Home Home, Delightful

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• Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.

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  Noble, Faithfulness, Fidelity

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• The more laws, the less justice.

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  Peace, War, Law

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• Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

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  Grace, Virtuous

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1755). “M.T. Cicero, His Offices: Or, His Treatise Concerning the Moral Duties of Mankind; His Cato Major, Concerning the Means of Making Old Age Happy; His Laelius, Concerning Friendship; His Moral Paradoxes; The Vision of Scipio, Concerning a Future State; His Letter Concerning the Duties of a Magistrate. With Notes Historical and Explanatory”, p.53

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• Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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  Inspirational, Shadow, Virtue

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 45), translated, 45 BC.

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

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “De Officiis: (English Edition)”, p.149, LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.

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