Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 24

• An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

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  Heart, Men, Mind

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• It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

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  Grief, Happens, Knows

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• That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.

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  Men, Pay, Guilty

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• I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.

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  Garden, Giving, Meditation

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• Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

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  Patience, Names, Long

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• Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

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  Latin, Fortune

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• Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

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  Change, Reading, Entertainment

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• No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

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  Death, Country, Immortality

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 15), translated, 45 BC.

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• True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.

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  Flower, Fall, Roots

  "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Book II, section 43, 44 B.C..

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• True nobility is exempt from fear.

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  Fear, Anxiety, Nobility

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• Hunger is the best sauce.

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  Food, Sauce, Hunger

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• It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.

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  Young Friends, Age, Duty

  On Old Age XI.35

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• An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home.
  [Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

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  War, Home, Army

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• Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

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  Pain, Power, Bears

  "Dictionary Of Latin Quotations Proverbs Maximus And Mottos, Classical And Medieval, Including Law Terms And Phrases". Book by H. Z Riley, November 5, 2015.

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• One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.

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  Soul, Body, Individual

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• Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

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  Mother, Art, Philosophy

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• In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.

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  Mind, Body, States

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum", III. 4, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 513-16,

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• Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

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  Action, Prudence, Conception

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• As you have sown so shall you reap.

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  Farming, Results, Reap

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• Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

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  Courage, Philosophical, Heart

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• According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

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  Law, Damage, Injury

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• Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.

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  Judging, Gentleman, Desire

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• For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

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  Rights, Law, People

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3125, Delphi Classics

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• Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

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  Gains, Morality, Ill

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• The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.

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  Atheist, Practice, Support

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

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