Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 4

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Wish

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• Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Strength, Running, Business

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Clinton Walker Keyes (1992). “Cicero in Twenty-eight Volumes: Cato Maior de Senectute. Laelius de Amicitia. De Divinatione”

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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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• Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Law

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• Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

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  Philosophical, Vehement, Causes

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• Whatever you do, do with all your might.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Commitment, Positive Attitude

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

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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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• 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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• If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

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  Stress, Giving, Affection

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3056, Delphi Classics

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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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• Every man's friend is no man's friend.

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  Men, Every Man

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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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• 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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• 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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• To live long, live slowly.

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  Long, Medical

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

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  Hurt, Enemy

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

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  Inspirational, Friendship, Kindness

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• We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

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  Suffering, Remember, Forget

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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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• Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

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  Taken, Men, Suffering

  "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 23., 44 B.C..

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• A wise man does nothing by constraint.

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  Wise, Men, Doe

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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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• 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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