Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 33

• Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Country, Citizens, World

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 911-17, Tusculanarum Disputationum, Book V. 37. 108, 1922.

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• Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

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  Law, Giving, Justice

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• It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

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  Window To The Soul, Soul, Window

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.2599, Delphi Classics

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• In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.

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  Art, Roots, Tree

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• As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap.

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  Results, Reap

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Oratore, II. 65, p. 670, 1922.

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• Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought.
  [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.]

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  Hands, Religion, Sacred

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• Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.

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  Pleasant, Beneficial

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• What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

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  Vanity, Virtue, Fervent

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• Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

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  Saving, Virtue, Advantage

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• There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.

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  Art, Eloquence

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• Let each man have according to his deserts.

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  Men, Desert

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• Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

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  Past, Danger, Recollection

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• We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

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  Superstitions, Destroying

  "On Divination". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC.

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• All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

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  Art, Refinement, Mutual

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• A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

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  Men, Ignorant, Doe

  "De Divinatione", II. 22, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 259-60,

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• I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

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  Thinking, Poet, Excellent

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Tusculanarum Disputationum, V, 22, p. 605-09, 1922.

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• There is not a moment without some duty.

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  Moments, Duty

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• Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.

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  Summer, Lasts, Succeed

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• Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.

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  Law, Opinion, Ends

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• Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

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  Grief, Tears, Olives

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• The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

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  Home, Empires, Fireplaces

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• The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

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  Character, Men, Fit

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero (2006). “De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations”, p.88, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Plato, Men, Errors

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum", I, 17, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 236-37,

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• Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

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  Children, Knowledge, Science

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• Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?

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  Men, Thinking, He Man

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