Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 4

• Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

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  Strength, Running, Business

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Clinton Walker Keyes (1992). “Cicero in Twenty-eight Volumes: Cato Maior de Senectute. Laelius de Amicitia. De Divinatione”

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• He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.

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  Men, Errors, Ignorant

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Officiis (44 B.C.), I. 19, p. 647-49, 1922.

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• Studies are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; they are companions by night, and in travel, and in the country.

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  Country, Book, Home

  "The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero".

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• The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

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  Friendship, Sympathy, Mean

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• We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

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  Suffering, Remember, Forget

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• What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

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  Philosophical, Wish

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• Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

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  Nature, Law, Opposites

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1970). “Cicero”

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• Whatever you do, do with all your might.

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  Philosophical, Commitment, Positive Attitude

  "The Art of Money-Getting". Book by P. T. Barnum, 1880.

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• I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

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  Peace, War, Humanity

  "Letters to Atticus" (1st century B.C.), as quoted in "Words on war: military quotations from ancient times to the present", book by Jay M. Shafritz, 1990.

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• We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.

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  Liars, Believe, Army

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• If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

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  Stress, Giving, Affection

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3056, Delphi Classics

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• We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

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  Communication, Our Words, Our Actions

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• Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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  Justice, Political, Prison

  "De Officiis (On Duties)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 10), 44 BC.

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• To freemen, threats are impotent.
  [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

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  Freedom, Power, Threat

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• The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

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  Imitation

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• Let reason govern desire.

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  War, Desire, Reason

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• To live long, live slowly.

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  Long, Medical

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• Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

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  Hurt, Enemy

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• No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

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  Insane, Sober

  "Pro Murena". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 1st century BC.

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• The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.

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  Sweet, Roots, Fruit

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• Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

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  Long, Life Is, Enough

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• 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.

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  Heart, Hair, Race

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• Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.

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  Long, Breathe

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• No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

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  Science, Understanding, Speak

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• Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

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  Men, Thinking, Two

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