Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 35

• Every animal loves itself.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Animal, Animal Love

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1872). “The Academic Questions: Treatise De Finibus and Tusculan Disputations of M. R. Cicero, with a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero”, p.252

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• I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.

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  Silent, Prudence, Folly

  "De Oratore", III. 35, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 645-47,

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• The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

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  Recollection

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “Select Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.427

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• The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.

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  Giving, Justice, Fairness

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• All things are full of God.

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  God, All Things

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• I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

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  Bulls, Handsome, Kidnapped

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• The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.

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  Sweet, Names

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1871). “The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.66

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• Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

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  Life, Fixed, Payment

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 39), translated, 45 BC.

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• I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.
  [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]

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  Silent, Prudence, Folly

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• Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home

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  Home, Littles, Prudent

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• The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

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  Time, Age, Doe

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• In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

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  Procrastination, Hateful, Affair

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1871). “The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.119

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• Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.

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  Success, Science, Perfection

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• We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

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  Excited, Praise, Glory

  "Pro Archia Poeta". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Exordium (Introduction) line 11), 62 BC.

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• In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Ignorance, Astonishment, Causes

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Charles Duke Yonge (1853). “The Treatises of M.T. Cicero: On the Nature of the Gods; On Divination; On Fate; On the Republic; On the Laws; and On Standing for the Consulship”, p.220, London : H.G. Bohn

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• I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

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  Peace, War, Unjust

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• The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.

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  Beauty, Nature, World

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• But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?

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  Mother, Night, Punishment

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• Hmm... That's like telling you about the cold of space, or terror of midnight. Sithis is all those things. He is... the Void.

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  Space, Midnight, Void

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• What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

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  Freedom, Men, People

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• The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

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  Pain, Injury, Severe

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• Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

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  Memories

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• What is more agreeable than one's home?

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  Home

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• War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.

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  War, Way, Should

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• It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

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  Art, Memories, Philosophy

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