Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 14

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

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  Truth, Philosophical, Mind

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• A community is like the ones who govern it.

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  Community, Influence

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• The first bond of society is marriage.

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  Marriage, Wedding, Firsts

  "De Officiis (On Duties)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 17), 44 BC.

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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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• There is no moment without some duty.

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  Moments, Duty

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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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• 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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• Laws are silent in time of war.

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  War, Philosophical, Law

  Pro Milone ch. 11

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

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  Philosophical, Oratory, Persuasion

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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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• Like associates with like.

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  Association, Associates

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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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• 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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• What is dignity without honesty?

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  Honesty, Dignity

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• Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

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  Writing, Learning, Science

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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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• As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

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  Character, Men, Fire

  "Pro Roscio Comodeo". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Section 17), circa 76 BC.

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• Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

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  Crush, Competition, Advancement

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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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• 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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• O tempora! O mores!
  O what times (are these)! what morals!

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  Time, Moral

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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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• It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

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  Citizens, Impossible, Murder

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