Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 6

• It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

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  Motivation, Character, Adversity

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• Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

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  Teacher, Fear, Teaching

  "Philippicae (Philippics)". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book II, Chapter 36), 44-43 BC.

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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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• Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.

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  Mean, People, Community

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• The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.

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  Sweet, Roots, Fruit

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• It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

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  Freedom, Evil, Democracy

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• There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money.

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  Strong, Castles, Security

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• Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

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  God, Giving, Soul

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• Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

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  Hate, Reality, Men

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Edward William Sutton, Harris Rackham (1942). “Cicero, De Oratore: In Two Volumes”

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• Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.

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  Adversity, Demand, Prosperity

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• It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.

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  Adversity, Mind, Bears

  "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 26, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 637-38, 44 B.C..

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• The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

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  Men, Law, Tree

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• The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

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  Men, Evil, Limits

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• Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

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  Baby, Children, Men

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Clinton Walker Keyes (1993). “Cicero in Twenty-eight Volumes: Pro Archiapoeta. Post reditum in senatu. Post reditum ad quirites. De domo sua.Deharuspicum responsis. Pro Plancio”

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• Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.

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  Wisdom, Passion, Way

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1853). “The Academic Questions, Treatise de Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of Marcus Tullius Cicero: With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero”, p.114

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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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• The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

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  Death, Memories, Grieving

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Maurice MACKAY (1855). “Select Orations of Marcus T. Cicero: together with the Treatises on Old Age and Friendship. Literally translated by the Rev. Dr. M'Kay ... Second edition”, p.138

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• There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

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  Kindness, Duty

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “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. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.27

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• The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body.
  [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]

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  Mind, Body, Disease

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• There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

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  Inspirational, Soul, Divine Inspiration

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• In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.

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  Teacher, Wish, Atheism

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• We are not born for ourselves alone.

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  Responsibility, Born

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “The Orations”, p.18

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• When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

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  Might, Resistance, Needs

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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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• Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

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  Evil, Stronger, Bud

  Philippicae, V. 11,

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