Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 29

• What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

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  Best Friend, True Friend, World

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• Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

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  Revenge, War, Defense

  "On the Republic. On the Laws".

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• So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

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  Age, May, Knows

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• Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

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  Writing, Law, History

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• Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

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  Children, Infancy Is, History

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• Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

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  Philosophical, Law, May

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• Hatred is inveterate anger.

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  Hate, Philosophical, Hatred

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• The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

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  Long, Endless, Nevertheless

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• Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

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  Character, Race, Habit

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• Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

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  Believe, Wish, Virtue

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• Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

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  Friendship, True Friend, Real Friends

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• Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

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  Philosophical, Writing, Ifs

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1962). “Cicero: Letters to Atticus”

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• If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

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  Garden, Grace, Library

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• Like readily consorts with like.

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• It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.

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  Strong, Children, Men

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (2010). “Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger”, p.75, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Habit is, as it were, a second nature.
  [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

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  Habit

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• Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself.
  [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]

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  Honesty, Thyself

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• What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?
  [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

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  Education, Republic, Youth

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• To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace.
  [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]

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  Stones, Folly, Proverbial

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• Everyone has his besetting sin.

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  Sin

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• A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

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  War, Safety, Honor

  "On the Commonwealth". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 54-51 BC.

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• Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.

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  Change, Longing

  "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, V. 12, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 93-96, 44 B.C..

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• He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.

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  Slavery, Sometimes, Should

  "Oratio Pro Rege Deiotaro", XI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 715-16,

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• Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.

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  Economy, Revenue, Purchasers

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• The forehead is the gate of the mind.

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  Mind, Foreheads, Gates

  "Oratio De Provinciis Consularibus", XI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 513-16,

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