Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

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  Wisdom, Law, Politics

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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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• 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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• No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

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  Insane, Sober

  "Pro Murena". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 1st century BC.

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• Through doubt we arrive at the truth.

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  Doubt

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• We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

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  Men, Race, Community

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• Man must suffer to be wise.

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  Wise, Men, Suffering

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• If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

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  Enemy, Plot, Violence

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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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• Before beginning, plan carefully.

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  Philosophical, Planning, Careful

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• Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

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  Helping Others, Born

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• The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

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  Agriculture, Tree, Fruit

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 14), translated, 45 BC.

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• The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.

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  Past, Men, Animal

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

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  Men, Worst Enemy, Enemy

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• Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

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  Men, Offense And Defense, Giving

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• Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.

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  Money, Defeat, Secure

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• The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

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  Luxury, Enemy, Folly

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• Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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  Justice, Political, Prison

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

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• The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

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  Desire, Thirst, Satisfied

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• If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

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  Truth, Philosophical, Thinking

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• Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

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  Life, Long, Shows

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• Friends, though absent, are still present.

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  Friendship, Absence, Absent Friends

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.181

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• To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

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  Errors, Fool, Persevere

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