Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 6

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

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  Inspirational, Friendship, Kindness

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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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• Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

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  Sound, Public Opinion, Influence

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• The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.

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  House, Dignity, Should

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• To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.

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  True Friend, Giving, Wells

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• When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!

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  Animal, Hands, History

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• He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

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  Wish, Riches, Rich

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• We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.

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  Foolish, Danger, Should

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1902). “De Officiis”

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• The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

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  Eye, Soul, Portraits

  "On the Orator". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, III. 59, 55 BCE.

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• It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

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  Selfishness, Virtue, Difficult

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• The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

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  Purpose, Students, Purpose Of Education

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• It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

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  Citizens, Impossible, Murder

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• Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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  Food, Mind, Body

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• If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole system of credit and finance which is carried on here at Rome in the Forum, is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province. If Those revenues are destroyed, our whole system of credit will come down with a crash.

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  Believe, Rome, Investing

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• Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

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  Men, Income, Realizing

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• Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

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  Wise, Art, Philosophy

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• It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

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  Men, Flames, Mind

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• Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.

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  Men, Indulge In, Anxiety

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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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• The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

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  Friendship, Laughter, Heart

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• By doubting we come at truth.

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  Life, Truth, Doubt

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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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• Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

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  Fear, Hate, Philosophical

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• A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

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  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Thankful

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt,Oratio Pro Cnæo Plancio, XXXIII, p. 336-37, 1922.

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• It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

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  Nature, Mistake, Philosophical

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