Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 16

• Hatred is a settled anger.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Hatred

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1853). “The Academic Questions, Treatise de Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of Marcus Tullius Cicero: With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero”, p.406

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• When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Character, Men, Judging

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• The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.

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  Suicide, World, Divinity

  "Tusculan Disputations". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 30, c. 45 BC.

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• The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

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  Matter, Opinion, Absolutes

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• We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

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  Law, May, Lawyer

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• Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

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  Men, Offense And Defense, Giving

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• The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

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  Eye, Mind, Faces

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• Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.

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  Practice, Names, Jerusalem

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• Life is short, but art lives forever.

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  Art, Life Is Short, Forever

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• All places are filled with fools.
  [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]

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  Fool, Folly, Filled

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• This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

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  Book, Heart, Men

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• Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Secret, Enmity, Secrecy

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• As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

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  Yield, Giving, Mind

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• Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

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  Agriculture, Tree, Littles

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• In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

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  Friendship, Spring, Heart

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• We all are imbued with the love of praise.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Praise

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• Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

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  Inspirational, Friendship, Vices

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• Man is his own worst enemy.

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  Men, Worst Enemy, Enemy

  "Epistulae ad Atticum (Letters to Atticus)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book X, Chapter 12a, Section III), 68-43 BC.

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• It is better to receive than to do injury.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Injury

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• Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

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  World, Sun, Robbing

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• Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.

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  Army, Champion, Causes

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3082, Delphi Classics

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• For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Law, Justice, Wicked

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Charles Duke Yonge (1853). “The Treatises of M.T. Cicero: On the Nature of the Gods; On Divination; On Fate; On the Republic; On the Laws; and On Standing for the Consulship”, p.417, London : H.G. Bohn

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• Generosity should never exceed ability.

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  Generosity, Should, Ability

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• Be a pattern to others and then all will go well.

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  Patterns, Supervision, Wells

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pierre-Joseph Thoulier Olivet (abbé d') (1751). “Thoughts of Cicero, on the Following Subjects, Viz. I. Religion. II. Man ... XII. Miscellaneous Thoughts. First Published in Latin and French by the Abbé D'Olivet; and Now Translated Into English, with Notes [by Alexander Wishart].”, p.189

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• Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

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  Philosophical, Men, Errors

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