Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Thinking, Feelings, Wish

• If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Stars, Thinking, Heaven

• Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Views, Feelings, Abuse

• Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Real, Men, Feelings

• There is a difference between justice and consideration in one's relations to one's fellow men. It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow men of considerateness, not to wound their feelings.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Differences, Justice

• Friends are proved by adversity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Friends, Adversity

• If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Stars, Men, Feelings

• Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Success, Confidence

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1871). “The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.375

• That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but he who has acknowledged a kindness has it still, and he who has a feeling of it has requited it.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Kindness, Feelings, Loan

• Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Feelings, Modesty, Shame

  "Rhetorical Invention", Book II, Section LVI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 520-21,

• All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Lying, Men, People

  "The Treatises of M. T. Cicero" by C. D. Yonge, On Standing for the Consulship, section 12, p. 499, 500, 1872.

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