Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 36

• There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Change, Delight, Fortune

  "Epistles", V. 12, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 93-96,

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• In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

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  Philosophical, Should, Said

  "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 13, 44 B.C..

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• Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

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  World, Immortal

  "In Catilinam", I, 4, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 321-25,

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• There were poets before Homer.

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  Poetry, Poet

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1939). “Brutus, with an English translation”, Loeb Classical Library

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• If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

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  Law, Doe, May

  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.417, London : H.G. Bohn

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• The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business.

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  Relaxation, Rules And Regulations, Noble

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• To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

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  Men, Race, Cities

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• I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

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  Culture, Praise, Deserve

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• Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.
  [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

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  Men, Way, Goodness

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• Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.

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  Punishment, Should

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• For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

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  Age, My Own, Short Time

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• No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.
  [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

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  Change, Men, Mind

  "Epistolæ ad Atticus", XVI. 7. 3, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 93-96,

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• I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

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  Sea, Heaven, World

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• Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship).
  [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

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  Vices, Flattery, Handmaids

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• It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.

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  Friendship, Salt, Common

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Amicitia, XIX, 1922.

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• It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

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  Grief, Hair, Sorrow

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Tusculanarum Disputationum, III. 26, p. 347-49, 1922.

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• A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age.
  [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

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  Hands, Sensual, Age

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• In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

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  Promise, Said, Motive

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “Cicero's Three Books Of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate”, p.24

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• I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn.
  [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]

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  Mind, Tongue

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• There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

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  Superstitions, Worship, Pious

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Natura Deorum, I. 42, p. 770-71, 1922.

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• There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

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  Punishment, Limits, Retribution

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• In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

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  Doubt, Imitation, Advantage

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1871). “Cicero on Oratory and Orators: With His Letters to Quintus and Brutus”, p.396, London, George Bell & sons

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• It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

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  Honorable, Persons

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• Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

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  Poetry, Excellence, Madness

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• You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.

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  Sky, Might, Sun

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3041, Delphi Classics

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