Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 31

• Honor is the reward of virtue.

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  Philosophical, Honor, Rewards

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, George Barnes, Edward Jones (1860). “Cicero on Oratory and Orators”, p.349

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• I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

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  Age, Hunger And Thirst, Proportion

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• We make allowance for necessity.

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  Allowance

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1899). “M. Tullii Ciceronis”

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• I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

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  Men, Names, People

  "De Senectute (On Old Age)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Chapter 6, Scene 20), 44 BC.

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• For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

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  Dance, Party, Men

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• Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

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  Friendship, Fire, Hands

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• In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.

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  Masters, Servant

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• The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.

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  Virtue, Glory, Whole

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• To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

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  Children, Past, Forever

  "Orator Ad M. Brutum" by Cicero, chapter XXXIV, section 120,

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• Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.

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  Gun, Rights, Second Amendment

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• It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

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  Crush, Flower, Envy

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• Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

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  Philosophical, Conceit, Frivolity

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• I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.

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  Memories, Latin, Everlasting

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1967). “On old age. On friendship”

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• An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.

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  Age, Body, Youth

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• For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

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  Law, Dumb, Arms

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Pro Milone, IV, p. 430-34, 1922.

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• If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries.
  [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]

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  Mother, Luxury, Wish

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• Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

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  Guilt, Deeds, Committed

  "De Officiis (On Duties)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book III, Chapter 8), 44 BC.

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• There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.

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  Stupid, Stupidity, Opinion

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• The human mind ever longs for occupation.

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  Mind, Occupation, Humans

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• It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant."
  [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.

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  Past, Greek, Males

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• There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside.
  Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.

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  Home, Delightful

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• Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.

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  Merit, Praise

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• There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

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  Wickedness, Intention

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• For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly said, "that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law is a silent magistrate.

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  Law, People, May

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.2291, Delphi Classics

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• You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
  [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]

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  Men, Long, 50th Birthday

  "De Senectute", 10, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 12-17,

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