Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Sorrow

Quotes about: Sorrow

• It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Moving On, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

• Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Beer, Sorrow, Drink

• Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Hate, Reality, Men

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Edward William Sutton, Harris Rackham (1942). “Cicero, De Oratore: In Two Volumes”

• We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Wise, Views

• Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Hate, Winning, Reality

• It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Grief, Hair, Sorrow

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Tusculanarum Disputationum, III. 26, p. 347-49, 1922.

• There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Past, Remembrance

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Grief, Sorrow, Opinion

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

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