Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 8

• Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

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  Philosophical, Speech, Brevity Of Life

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• True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

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  Agreement, Law, Trying

  "De Re Publica" by Marcus Tullius Cicero, translated by Clinton W. Keyes, Book III, Section (22), 1928.

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• This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

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  Truth, Fire, Sparks

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• In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

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  Pride, Arrogance, Prosperity

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

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• For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

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  Happiness, Wise, World

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• Friends are proved by adversity.

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  Friendship, Friends, Adversity

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• To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

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  Victory, Teach, Sweetness

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• No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

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  Pain, Thinking, Men

  "De Officiis (On Duties)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 2), 44 BC.

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• There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.

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  Knowledge, Mean, Sea

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• O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

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  Men, Know How, Wretched

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• Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

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  Learning, Mind, Kind

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• Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

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  People, Blind, Fortune

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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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• You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

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  Inspirational, Good Life, War

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• He has no worse enemy than himself.

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  Men, Enemy

  "The Letters of Cicero: The Whole Extant Correspondence in Chronological Order".

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• There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

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  Rewards, Action, Consciousness

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• Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.

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  Thinking, Years, Mind

  On Old Age VII.24

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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 pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

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  Inspirational, Patience, Philosophical

  "Living Like Benjamin: Making Dreams Come True". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (p. 143), November 1, 2007.

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• Everything is alive... Everything is interconnected.

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  Spiritual, Nature, Alive

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• No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

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  Sorry, Philosophical, Strikes

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• By doubting we come at truth.

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  Life, Truth, Doubt

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• The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

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  Law, People, Safety

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Niall Rudd (2008). “The Republic and The Laws”, p.152, Oxford University Press

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• Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

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  Freedom, Philosophical, Men

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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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