Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 40

• A letter does not blush.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Doe, Letters, Blushing

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1899). “The Letters of Cicero: B.C. 51-49”, p.23, Charles River Editors

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• Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Natural, States, Humans

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1928). “De Re Publica”

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• It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Men, Debt

  Epistulae ad Familiares, II, 6, 2, 43 BC.

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• No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Poet, Orators

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• If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Errors, Giving

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Armistead Falconer (1923). “Cicero in twenty-nine volumes”

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• Calamus fortior gladio.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

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• Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Beer, Light

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.1831, Delphi Classics

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• A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Water, Mind, Stains

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1928). “De Re Publica”

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• So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Holiday, Air

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1967). “Cicero”

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• For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.

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  Believe, Order, Opposites

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• Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.

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  Reading, Night, Thinking

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• Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wish, Virtue, Seems

  "Laelius On Friendship". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC.

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• History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities. 


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  Memories, Reality, History

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• Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Love, Friendship, Nature

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

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• Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Character, Men, Suits

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• Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Children, Knowledge, Understanding

  "De Oratore (On the Orator)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Chapter XXXIV), 55 BC.

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• No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

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  Life, Short Life, Character

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 440-55, Tusculanarum Disputationum, I. 45, 1922.

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• Patria est communis omnium parens.
  Our country is the common parent of all.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Country, Parent, Patriotism

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• Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Yield, Laurels

  'De Officiis' bk. 1, ch. 77

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• There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Strong, Money, Money Talks

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• There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

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  Time, Thinking, Age

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• Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

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  Faith, Men, Together

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “The Orations”, p.138

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• Leisure with dignity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Leisure, Dignity

  Pro Sestio ch. 98

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• For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Art, Justice, Grace

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• Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Vices, Flattery, Handmaids

  De Amicitia, XXIV,

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