Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 38

• The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

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  Two, Laughing, Religion

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• I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.

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  Laughing, Wonder

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• Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

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  Real, Voice, Benefits

  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.204

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• The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men

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  Respect, Men, Order

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• Unraveling the web of Penelope.

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  Work, Unraveling

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• Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest.

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  Rocks, Doctrine, Tempest

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• Nature abhors annihilation.
  [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]

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  Nature, Annihilation

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• That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

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  Silly, Men, Age

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• People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

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  Philosophical, People, Economy

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• For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.

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  Real, Looks, Faces

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1884). “Cicero de Amicitia (on Friendship) and Scipio's Dream”

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• What times! What manners!

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  Society, Manners

  "Catilinam" by Cicero,

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• There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.

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  Friends, Perfect, Faithful

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• All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

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  Art, Men, Blood

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• Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?

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  Change, Years, Body

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• Nothing quite new is perfect.

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  Perfect, Perfection, Quitting

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• Our thoughts are free.

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  Free Thought, Our Thoughts

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Duncan (1792). “Cicero's Select Orations”, p.491

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• My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

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  Business, House, Ornaments

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• Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

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  Fall, Enemy, Friend Enemy

  "Pro Rege Deitaro". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Chapter IX), 45 BC.

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• Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

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  Mean, Skills, Ill Will

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3108, Delphi Classics

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• In times of war, the law falls silent.

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  War, Fall, Law

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• Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.

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  Body, Spirit, Action

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• There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

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  Wings, Ease, Flight

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• What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?

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  Journey, May, Absurd

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3016, Delphi Classics

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• There is no thing which God cannot accomplish.

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  Accomplish

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• More law, less justice.

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  Latin, Law, Justice

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero (2006). “De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations”, p.26, ReadHowYouWant.com

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