Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 2

• Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

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  Tyrants, Law, People

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• Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

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  War, Hero, Honor

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• Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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  Positive, Art, Silence

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• The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

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  Life, Military, Glory

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero (2006). “De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

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  Respect, Courage, Adversity

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• For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

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  Men, Tyrants, People

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• Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

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  Thank You, Time, Children

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• The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

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  Love, Life, Family

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1975). “De officiis”, Loeb Classical Library

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• The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

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  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.

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  Lying, Character, Challenges

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• I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

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  Opinion, Glory

  Cicero,, Marcus Tullius Cicero, D.H. Berry (2009). “Political Speeches”, p.167, Oxford University Press

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• The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.

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  Memories, Love You, Heart

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• To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

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  Children, Life And Love, Philosophical

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1962). “Brutus”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

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  Learning, Waiting, Mind

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• The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

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  Truth, Men, Firsts

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• Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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• A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

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  Men, Joy, Heaven

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• More laws, less justice.

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  Law, Justice, Liberty

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• Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

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  Today, Riches, Moral

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• It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

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  Character, Reflection, Words Of Wisdom

  On Old Age VI (transl. W. A. Falconer)

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• There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

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  Two, Way, Violence

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• Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

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  Greatest Love, Next

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• To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

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  Gratitude, Acceptance, Simplicity

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.2333, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

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  Hype, Obscure, Intention

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• If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.

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  Stars, Thinking, Heaven

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