Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 23

• For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Errors, One Day, Eternity

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.2708, Delphi Classics

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• For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.

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  Lying, Eye, Men

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1850). “Cicero's Three Books of Offices, or Moral Duties; also his Cato Major, an essay on Old Age; Lælius, an essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate. Literally translated, with notes ... by Cyrus R. Ed”, p.313

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• Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

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  Sweet, Memories, Philosophical

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• What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

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  Motivational, Philosophical, Commitment

  "De Senectute (On Old Age)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Chapter IX), 44 BC.

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• For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

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  Peace, War, Civil War

  "Philippics". 2. 15. 37,

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• Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

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  Nature, Fields, Dimensions

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• Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

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  Imagination, Virtue, Difficult

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• Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

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  Tears

  "Ad Herrenium", II, 31, 50, "De Inventione", I. 56, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 780-83,

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• The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

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  Journey, Absurd, Increase

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• The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

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  Philosophical, Pleasure, Disgusting

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Harris Rackham (1977). “De Oratore: Book III”

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• The whole of virtue consists in its practice.

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  Practice, Virtue, Whole

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• True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

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  Flower, Fall, Roots

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• We are born poets. we become orators.

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  Poet, Born, Orators

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• He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

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  Kindness, Grateful, Acknowledge

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• Justice renders to every one his due.

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  Justice, Prison, Dues

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• In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Health

  "Pro Ligario". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Section XII), 46 BC.

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• Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

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  Nature, Victory, Insolent

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• Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

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  Friendship, Vices, Favors

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• We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If good will and affection are taken away, every joy is taken from life.

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  Taken, Heart, Joy

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Armistead Falconer (1923). “Cicero in twenty-nine volumes”

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• Certain signs precede certain events.

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  Events, Certain

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Divinatione, I. 52, p. 304-06, 1922.

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• Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

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  Age, Doe, Youth

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, James LOGAN (Chief Justice of the Province of Pennsylvania.) (1750). “Cato Major; Or, a Treatise on Old Age ... With Explanatory Notes from the Roman History. By Mr. Loggan [sic]. To which is Prefixed, the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.42

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• I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method.
  [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]

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  Voting, Ego, Viva

  "On the Laws". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, III. 15, c. 43 B.C..

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• The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

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  Hands, Order, Law

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• Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.

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  Thinking, Names, Spain

  "On the Nature of the Gods". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC.

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• Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

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  Men, Would Be, Human Nature

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