Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 4

• Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Justice, Political, Prison

  "De Officiis (On Duties)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 10), 44 BC.

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• Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

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  Sound, Public Opinion, Influence

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• Virtue is its own reward.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Inspire

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1812). “Cicero's five books De finibus: or, Concerning the last object of desire and aversion”, p.97

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• What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

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  Philosophical, Wish

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• I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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  Education, Knowledge, Knowing Who You Are

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• Whatever you do, do with all your might.

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  Philosophical, Commitment, Positive Attitude

  "The Art of Money-Getting". Book by P. T. Barnum, 1880.

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• There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Philosophical

  "The Letters of Cicero: The Whole Extant Correspondence in Chronological Order".

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• To live long, live slowly.

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  Long, Medical

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• Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

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  Hurt, Enemy

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• Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

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  History, Historical, Goes On

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• We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

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  Communication, Our Words, Our Actions

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• Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

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  Forgiveness, Believe, Thinking

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• There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

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  Inspirational, Friendship, Kindness

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• They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race.

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  Heart, Hair, Race

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• Those who do not know history will forever remain children

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  Children, Forever, Knows

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• The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

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  Guilt, Shame, Incitement

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• We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.

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  Liars, Believe, Army

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• Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

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  Yoga, Health, Soul

  Tusculanarum Disputationum Bk III, Ch. 3

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• We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

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  Suffering, Remember, Forget

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• The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

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  Friendship, Sympathy, Mean

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• Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

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  Positive, Philosophical, Excess

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

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• Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

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  Philosophical, Vehement, Causes

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• A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

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  Wisdom, Law, Politics

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• Man is his own worst enemy.
  [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]

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  Men, Worst Enemy, Enemy

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• If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.

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  Stars, Thinking, Heaven

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