Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 3

• Life without learning is death.

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• Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

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  Greatest Love, Next

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• Through doubt we arrive at the truth.

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  Doubt

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• As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.

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  Men, Grace, Mind

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• The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

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  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• They condemn what they do not understand.

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  Latin, Understanding, Criticism

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• Man must suffer to be wise.

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  Wise, Men, Suffering

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• What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

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  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

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  Men, Tyrants, People

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• 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.

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  Justice, Forever, Brotherhood

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• Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

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  Political, Public Opinion, Investing

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• What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

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  Believe, Gains, Action

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• A home without books is a body without soul.

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  Book, Philosophical, Home

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• Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.

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  May, Advantage, Expenses

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• A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

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  Education, Science, Mind

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• In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

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  Philosophical, Power, Majority

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• Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

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  Yoga, Health, Soul

  Tusculanarum Disputationum Bk III, Ch. 3

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• Those who do not know history will forever remain children

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  Children, Forever, Knows

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• Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

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  Sound, Public Opinion, Influence

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• As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.

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  Powerful, Past, Giving

  "De Senectute (On Old Age)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book 5, Section 15), 44 BC.

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• Before beginning, plan carefully.

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  Philosophical, Planning, Careful

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• I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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  Education, Knowledge, Knowing Who You Are

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• Virtue is its own reward.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Inspire

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1812). “Cicero's five books De finibus: or, Concerning the last object of desire and aversion”, p.97

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• Man is his own worst enemy.
  [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]

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  Men, Worst Enemy, Enemy

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• No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

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  Ignorance, Men, Gains

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