Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 30

• That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

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  Favour, Gang, Refrain

  "Philippics". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC.

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• I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

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  Wisdom, Men, Justice

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• I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.

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  Men, Good Man, Should

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• What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

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  Pain, Absence, Pleasure

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• Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

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  Love, Philosophical, Inspired

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• To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

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  Philosophy, Self, Study

  "R.I.P.: Washington Phillips" by Lee Matalone, therumpus.net. June 9, 2015.

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• Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

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  Philosopher, Absurd, Said

  'De Divinatione' bk. 2, ch. 119

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• There is a difference between justice and consideration in one's relations to one's fellow men. It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow men of considerateness, not to wound their feelings.

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  Men, Differences, Justice

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• Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

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  Children, Knowledge, Born

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• The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

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  Sweet, Peace, Names

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• A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

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  Self Improvement, Public Speaking, Orators

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• This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

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  Birthday, Wine, Years

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• There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

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  War, Past, Remembrance

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• It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'

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  Truth, Falsehood

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• Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

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  Thinking, Divinity, Divine

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• The popular breeze - Aura popularis

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  Auras, Popularity, Breeze

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• It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

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  Numbers, Weight, Regard

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• The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.

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  Sleep, Giving, Soul

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• Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

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  War, Latin, Rome

  Pro Milone ch. 11

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• What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?

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  Labor

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• No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

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  Grief

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• The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

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  Self, Spirit, Figures

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1928). “De Re Publica”

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• Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.
  [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse.]

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  Mistake, Men, May

  "Philippicæ", XII. 2, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 787-90,

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• Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

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  Men, Gambling, Play

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• The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

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  Mind, Together, Age

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “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”, p.250

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