Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 9

• Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

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  Grace, Virtuous

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1755). “M.T. Cicero, His Offices: Or, His Treatise Concerning the Moral Duties of Mankind; His Cato Major, Concerning the Means of Making Old Age Happy; His Laelius, Concerning Friendship; His Moral Paradoxes; The Vision of Scipio, Concerning a Future State; His Letter Concerning the Duties of a Magistrate. With Notes Historical and Explanatory”, p.53

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• For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.

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  Lying, Eye, Men

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1850). “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. Literally translated, with notes ... by Cyrus R. Ed”, p.313

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• Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

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  Truth, Lying, Mind

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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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• Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

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  Taken, Men, Suffering

  "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 23., 44 B.C..

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• The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

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  Men, Firsts, Affair

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• When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.

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  Art, Memories, Believe

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• Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

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  Time, Nature, Science

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• It is better to receive than to do injury.

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  Injury

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• Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

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  Work, Men, Leisure

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• Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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  Inspirational, Shadow, Virtue

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 45), translated, 45 BC.

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• Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

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  Grief, Sorrow, Opinion

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1886). “Tusculan Disputations ...”

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• It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane.

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  Mistake, Men, Thinking

  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.48

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• Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

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  Mistake, Men, May

  "Philippicæ", XII. 2; Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 787-90,

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• A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

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  Philosophical, Tears, Trouble

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• There is nothing which God cannot do.
  [Lat., Nihil est quod deus efficere non possit.]

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  God

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• Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

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  Wise, Nature, Men

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• The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.

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  Wise, Men, Benefits

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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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• 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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• 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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• We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

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  Book, Writing, Men

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• Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

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  Motivational, Friendship, Truth

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• Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

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  Discipline, Reason, Should

  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.52

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• Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

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  Leadership, Persistence, Views

  "Epistulae ad Familiares (Letters to Friends)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 9, Section 21), 62-43 BC.

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