Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 3

• They condemn what they do not understand.

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  Latin, Understanding, Criticism

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• Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

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  Helping Others, Born

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• Through doubt we arrive at the truth.

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  Doubt

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• Every man's friend is no man's friend.

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  Men, Every Man

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• We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.

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  Mean, Doe, Should

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• What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

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  Believe, Gains, Action

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• If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

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  Education, Teacher, Letters

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• A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

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  Education, Science, Mind

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• Before beginning, plan carefully.

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  Philosophical, Planning, Careful

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• A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

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  Tyrants, Ambitious, Fool

  Speaking to the Roman Senate, as recorded by Sallust in The Catiline War (c. 40 b.c.). This quotation is a favorite of CIA counterintelligence officers.

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• Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

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  Latin, Law, People

  "De Legibus (On the Laws)" book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book III, section 3),

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• The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

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  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

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  Political, Public Opinion, Investing

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• In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

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  Philosophical, Power, Majority

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• No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

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  Ignorance, Men, Gains

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• Man must suffer to be wise.

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  Wise, Men, Suffering

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• No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

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  Insane, Sober

  "Pro Murena". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 1st century BC.

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• As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.

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  Powerful, Past, Giving

  "De Senectute (On Old Age)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book 5, Section 15), 44 BC.

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• Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

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  Motivational, Friendship, Truth

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• What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

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  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

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  Luxury, Enemy, Folly

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• I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

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  Peace, War, Humanity

  "Letters to Atticus" (1st century B.C.), as quoted in "Words on war: military quotations from ancient times to the present", book by Jay M. Shafritz, 1990.

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• Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

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  Strength, Running, Business

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Clinton Walker Keyes (1992). “Cicero in Twenty-eight Volumes: Cato Maior de Senectute. Laelius de Amicitia. De Divinatione”

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• If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

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  Stress, Giving, Affection

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3056, Delphi Classics

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• Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.

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  May, Advantage, Expenses

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