Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

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  Memories, Rewards, Virtue

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• Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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  Friendship, Loyalty

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

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  Time, Moral

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• Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.

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  Children, Mean, Forever

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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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• The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

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  God, Matter, Neglect

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Harris Rackham (1972). “Academicae quaestiones”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

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  Art, Nature, Science

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• The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

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  Peace, War, Believe

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• There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

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  Time, Grief, Doe

  "Epistles (Letters)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book IV, Chapter 5), 68-43 BC.

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• The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

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  Sight, Mind, Wonder

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• A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

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  Heart, Thankfulness, Greatest Love

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• A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

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  Lying, Liars, Telling The Truth

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Divinatione, II. 71, p. 485-87, 1922.

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• In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

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  Character, Men, Honor

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• Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

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  Birthday, Age, Youth

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• Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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  Writing, Editing, Mind

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• The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

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  Inspirational, Men, Personal Growth

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• The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.

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  Past, Men, Animal

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• Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

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  Past, Years, Giving

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• To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

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  Stones, Folly, Proverbial

  "Epistles (Letters)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book X, Chapter 20), 68-43 BC.

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• We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.

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  Foolish, Danger, Should

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1902). “De Officiis”

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• It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

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  Men, Fortune

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum", LIX, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 289-93,

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• Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

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  Age, Old Age

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• Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

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  Pay, Peter, Borrowing

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