Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 22

• Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

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  Philosophical, Innocence, Guilty

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• It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

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  Mind, Able, Talent

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• Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and should not be admitted for a moment. We should ask from friends and do for friends only what is good.

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  Cute, Sake, Moments

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• Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

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  Hate, Winning, Reality

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• Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturæ judicia confirmat.
  Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.

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  Time, Reality, Men

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• Our country is wherever we are well off.
  [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

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  Country, Patriotism, Wells

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• It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

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  Real, Virtue, Possibility

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1884). “Cicero de Amicitia (on Friendship) and Scipio's Dream”

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• Strain every nerve to gain your point.

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  Nerves, Gains, Strain

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• You may never be less alone than when you are alone.

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  May

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• Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only the judges may hear, for instigators are not lacking to stir up the crowd against me, and against all the best citizens. To scorn, in the interest of the Republic, this multitude of Jews so often turbulent in the assemblies shows a singular strength of mind. The money is in the Treasury; they do not accuse us of theft; they seek to stir up hatreds.

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  Powerful, Voice, Judging

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• To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.

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  Business, Justice, Age

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3124, Delphi Classics

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• Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

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  Men, Mind, Deceit

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• The sinews of war are infinite money.

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  Peace, Money, War

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• Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

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  Men, Different, Taste

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• Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

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  Time, Soul, Lasts

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1839). “The Orations”, p.261

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• Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

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  Philosophical, Law, Liberty

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• A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

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  Age, Calm, Aging

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• He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

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  Truth, Lying, Littles

  "Oratio Pro Quinto Roscio Comœdo" by Cicero, XX,

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• Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

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  Men, Practice, Profession

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• Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

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  Children, Memories, Men

  "Orator Ad M. Brutum". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BC.

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• Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

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  Ignorance, Men, Perplexed

  "De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (On the ends of good and evil)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I: Liber Primus, Chapter 13), 45 BC.

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• The works of nature must all be accounted good.

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• In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

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  Pleasure, Pleasures Of Life, Satiety

  "De Oratore (On the Orator)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book III, Chapter 25), 55 BC.

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• Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est

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  Age, Inhumanity

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• It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

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  Real, World, Sun

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1887). “Ethical Writings of Cicero: Cicero De Officiis, Cicero De Senectute, Cicero De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream”

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