Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 12

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

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  Talking, Folly, Uneducated

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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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• Genius is fostered by industry.

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  Genius, Industry

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

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  Enjoyed

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

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  God

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• We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

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  Wisdom, Understanding, Enjoy

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• Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

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  Time, Stupid, Journey

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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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• 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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• In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

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  Philosophical, Health, Mind

  Tusculanarum Disputationum Bk III

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

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  Noble, Faithfulness, Fidelity

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• There is no place more delightful than home.

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  Home, Home Home, Delightful

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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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• The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, History

  Epistolae ad atticum Book IX, Section 5

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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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• 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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