Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 21

• Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

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  Good Life, Men, Evil

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• Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

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  Events, World, Made

  Divinatione (1st century b.c.).

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• No man was ever great without divine inspiration.
  [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]

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  Inspiration, Greatness, Men

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• Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.

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  Men, Indulge In, Anxiety

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• There is nothing god cannot do.

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• Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery.

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  Views, Feelings, Abuse

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• An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).

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  Men, Agreement, Conspiracy

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• The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.

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  Real, Prejudice, Real Value

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Oratio Pro Quinto Roscio Comœdo, X. 29, p. 647-49, 1922.

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• Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

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  Views, Theatre, Action

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2005). “Tusculan Disputations: On the Nature of Gods, and the Commonwealth”, p.90, Cosimo, Inc.

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• No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

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  Thinking, Years, Age

  "Of Old Age". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, book 5, section 15, reported in "Cicero on the Art of Growing Old", book by Herbert N. Couch (1959), p. 21,

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• Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.

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  Friendship, Kindness

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• Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

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  Art, Work, Men

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• No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.
  [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]

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  Stars, Feet, Nemo

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• Never injure a friend, even in jest.

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  Friendship, Philosophical, Jest

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• No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

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  Inspirational, Divine Inspiration, Portions

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• If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

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  Errors, Soul, Needs

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• The spirit is the true self.

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  Life, Spiritual, Self

  'De Republica' bk. 6, ch. 26

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• The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

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  Death, Meditation, Philosopher

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• Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

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  Expectations, Anticipation, Please

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• The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

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  Theatre, Virtue, Conscience

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• History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

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  History Of Life, Guidance, Passing

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• He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

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  Reading, Garden, Library

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• A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.
  [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]

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  Gratitude, Heart, Parent

  "Oratio Pro Cnæo Plancio", XXXIII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 336-37,

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• Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.

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  Life, Home, Adversity

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• Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

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  Learning, Men, Age

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