Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 9

• Ability without honor is useless.

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  Army, Honor, Useless

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• The beginnings of all things are small.

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  All Things

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1872). “The Academic Questions: Treatise De Finibus and Tusculan Disputations of M. R. Cicero, with a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero”, p.267

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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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• I am never less alone than when alone.

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  Loneliness, Solitude

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1899). “M. Tullii Ciceronis”

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• While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.

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  Roots, Ephemeral, Violence

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• Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

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  Exercise, Age, Temperance

  On Old Age X.34

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• If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

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  Truth, Self, Would Be

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• When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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  Children, Teaching, Science

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• All soils are not fertile.

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  Soil, Fertile

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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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• Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

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  Tradition, Conquer, Customs

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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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• So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

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  Wise, Truth, Lying

  "Academici". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book IV, Chapter 21), translated, 45 BC.

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• A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

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  Life, Happiness, Happy

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.2759, Delphi Classics

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• In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

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  Health, Religion, Liberty

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• Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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  Wisdom, Knowledge, Justice

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• A man of courage is also full of faith.

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  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2005). “Tusculan Disputations: On the Nature of Gods, and the Commonwealth”, p.97, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

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  Punishment, Offense

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• We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

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  Race, Unions, Fellowship

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• Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
  [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]

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  Eating

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• Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

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  Nature, Law, Opposites

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1970). “Cicero”

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• What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

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  Honesty

  "Philippicae (Philippics)". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book II, Chapter 27), 44-43 BC.

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• Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

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  Inspirational, Eye, Light

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pierre-Joseph Thoulier Olivet, Alexander WISHART (1750). “Thoughts of Cicero, on the following subjects, viz. I. Religion, II. Man ... XII. Miscellaneous thoughts. Published in Latin and French by the Abbé d'Olivet; to which is now added, an English translation, with notes. [By Alexander Wishart.]”, p.73

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• The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

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  Truth, Writing, Law

  De Oratore. It is more important that these maxims be observed by U.S. intelligence analysts than by historians.

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• Philosophy is the true mother of science.

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  Mother, Philosophy

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