Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Crush, Mistake, Believe

• They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Justice, Forever, Brotherhood

• It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Selfishness, Virtue, Difficult

• Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, World, Mankind

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1750). “Thoughts of Cicero: On the Following Subjects, Viz. I. Religion. II. Man. III. Conscience. IV. The Passions. V. Wisdom. VI. Probity. VII. Eloquence. VIII. Friendship. IX. Old Age. X. Death. XI. Scipio's Dream. XII. Miscellaneous Thoughts”, p.213

• The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Pride, Might, Know Yourself

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pierre-Joseph Thoulier Olivet, Alexander WISHART (1773). “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.41

• The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Beauty, Nature, World

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Heart, Land, Soil

• That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Ordinary, Statistics, Belief

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1968). “Cicero”

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