Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Reading, Heart, Law

• The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Memories, Love You, Heart

• Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Courage, Philosophical, Heart

• 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.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Laughter, Heart

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Thankful

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

• A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.
  [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Gratitude, Heart, Parent

  "Oratio Pro Cnæo Plancio", XXXIII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 336-37,

• The science of love is the philosophy of the heart

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophy, Heart, Love Is

• They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Heart, Hair, Race

• In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Spring, Heart

• We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If good will and affection are taken away, every joy is taken from life.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Taken, Heart, Joy

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Armistead Falconer (1923). “Cicero in twenty-nine volumes”

• A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Heart, Thankfulness, Greatest Love

• The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Heart, Land, Soil

• An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Heart, Men, Mind

• For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Heart, Past

• Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am the jester. The soul that has served as my constant companion for so long has breached the veil of the Void finally and forever. It is now in me. It is me. The world has seen the last of Cicero the man. Behold Cicero, Fool of Hearts - laughter incarnate!

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Laughter, Heart, Men

• This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Heart, Men

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