Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 26

• In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

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  Fall, May, Limits

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 600-02, De Officiis (44 B.C.), I. 29, 1922.

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• Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

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  Inspirational, Truth, Honesty

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• Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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  Friendship, Best Friend, Men

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• He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it.
  [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

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  Ornaments, Modesty, Maximum

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• The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body.
  [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]

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  Eye, Body, Sentinels

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• I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

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• Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery.
  [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

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  Liberty, Slavery, Individual

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• I hate all children of precocious talent.

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  Children, Hate, Talent

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• Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

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  Eye, Mind, Fellowship

  "De Senectute", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 600-02,

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• I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.

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  Nature, Sacred, Obedience

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1833). “Cicero: The Orations Translated by Duncan, the Offices by Cockman, and the Cato and Lælius by Melmoth”, p.210

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• If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

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  Loyalty, Men, Heaven

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• Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already.

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  Eye, Watches, Done

  "Orationes In Catilinam", I, 2, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 771-72,

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• There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.

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  Mother, Gratitude, Quality

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• That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue.
  [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]

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  Offering, Rewards, Virtue

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• To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless.
  [Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]

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  Thinking, Arrogant, World

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• Pardon is granted to necessity.

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  Granted, Pardon

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• Let the punishment be equal with the offence.
  [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

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  Punishment, Equal, Offence

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• It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

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  Friendship, Real, Virtue

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (2010). “Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger”, p.42, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home.
  [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]

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  Death, Home, Inns

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• Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit

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  Practice, Skills, Constant

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• Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

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  Philosophical, Silence, Denial

  "Paulus", L, 17,

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• There is no life without friendship

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• Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.

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  Buying, Wealth, Certain

  "Paradoxa", 6. 3, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 864-67,

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• Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

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  Justice, Virtue, Glory

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3069, Delphi Classics

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• The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

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  Use, Virtue, Existence

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1970). “Cicero”

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