Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 10

• A man of courage is also full of faith.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2005). “Tusculan Disputations: On the Nature of Gods, and the Commonwealth”, p.97, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Genius is fostered by industry.

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  Genius, Industry

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• Everything is alive... Everything is interconnected.

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  Spiritual, Nature, Alive

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• The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

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  Men, Evil, Limits

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• To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

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  Victory, Teach, Sweetness

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• The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

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  Envy, Judgment, Malevolence

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• No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.

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  Wise, Men, Traitor

  "Orationes In Verrem", II. 1. 15, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 811-12,

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• You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

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  Friends, Real, Circumstances

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1872). “The Academic Questions: Treatise De Finibus and Tusculan Disputations of M. R. Cicero, with a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero”, p.163

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• Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

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  Longing, Trouble, Yearning

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

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• Probability is the very guide of life.

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  Investing, Statistics, Guides

  "De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC.

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• No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

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  Sorry, Philosophical, Strikes

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• Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

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  Memories, Rewards, Virtue

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• I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

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  Gratitude, Philosophical, Envy

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• It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

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  Real, Fire, Faithful

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• Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Thinking, Years, Mind

  On Old Age VII.24

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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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• For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

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  Men, Age

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1927). “Tusculan Disputations”

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• It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

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  Nature, Mistake, Philosophical

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• History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

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  Light, History, Witness

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• It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.

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  Adversity, Mind, Bears

  "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 26, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 637-38, 44 B.C..

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• There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

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  Rewards, Action, Consciousness

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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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• I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

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  Prophet, Prophecy

  "De Divinatione". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Book II. 5, 44 B.C..

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• While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.

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  Roots, Ephemeral, Violence

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• The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

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  Truth, Writing, Law

  De Oratore. It is more important that these maxims be observed by U.S. intelligence analysts than by historians.

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