Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 14

• It is necessary for a Senator to be thoroughly acquainted with the constitution; and this is a knowledge of the most extensive nature; a matter of science, of diligence, of reflection, without which no Senator can possibly be fit for his office.

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  Reflection, Government, Office

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• The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

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  Life, Philosophical, Men

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• It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

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  Men, Arrogant, World

  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.50

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• I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

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  Happiness, Men, Order

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1927). “Tusculan Disputations”

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• Judge not by the number, but by the weight.

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  Numbers, Judging, Quality

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• Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

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  Plato, Men, Sea

  "De Senectute", XIII. 44, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 600-02,

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• Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

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  Truth, Philosophical, Mind

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• Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

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  Beer, Sorrow, Drink

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• Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

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  Real, Real Friends, Wages

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1884). “Cicero de Amicitia (on Friendship) and Scipio's Dream”

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• In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music.

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  Inspiration, Men, Ignorant

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• All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

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  Friends, Adversity, World

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (2010). “Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger”, p.13, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

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  Mistake, Men, May

  "Philippicæ", XII. 2; Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 787-90,

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• Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

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  Memories, Philosophical, Intriguing

  "On the Orator". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 5, 55 BCE.

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• Laws are silent in time of war.

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  War, Philosophical, Law

  Pro Milone ch. 11

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• What is dignity without honesty?

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  Honesty, Dignity

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• It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

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  Moving On, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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• Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.

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  Giving, Advice, Suggestions

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• Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.

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  Men, Issues, Events

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.2323, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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  Philosophical, Oratory, Persuasion

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• Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.

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  Should

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Armistead Falconer (1923). “Cicero in twenty-nine volumes”

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• He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

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  Book, Passion, Beer

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• The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

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  Purpose, Students, Purpose Of Education

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• Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

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  Religious, Ideas, Mind

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• For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

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  Men, Age

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1927). “Tusculan Disputations”

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• Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.

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  Addresses, Introduction, Politeness

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