Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 5

• 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.

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  Hate, Reality, Men

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

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• No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.

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  Lying, Deceit, Courtesy

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• There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Philosophical

  "The Letters of Cicero: The Whole Extant Correspondence in Chronological Order".

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• Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.

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  Money, Defeat, Secure

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• Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.

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  Self, Requirements, Self Reliant

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• The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

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  Luxury, Enemy, Folly

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• It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

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  Freedom, Evil, Democracy

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• Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.

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  Wisdom, Passion, Way

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1853). “The Academic Questions, Treatise de Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of Marcus Tullius Cicero: With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero”, p.114

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• Every man's friend is no man's friend.

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  Men, Every Man

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• Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

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  God, Giving, Soul

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• He who suffers, remembers.

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  Suffering, Remember

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• Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

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  Forgiveness, Believe, Thinking

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• Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

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  Men, Liberty, Slavery

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• I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.

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  Wish, Remember, Forget

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• Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

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  Plato, Men, Sea

  "De Senectute", XIII. 44, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 600-02,

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• There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

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  Inspirational, Friendship, Kindness

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• If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

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  Truth, Philosophical, Thinking

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• If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.

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  Stars, Thinking, Heaven

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• God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

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  Government, Law, Justice

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• I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

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  Hunger, Drink, Thirst

  "De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum", II. 28, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 381-82,

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• We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

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  Men, Race, Community

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• It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

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  Motivation, Character, Adversity

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• For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

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  Happiness, Wise, World

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• Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

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  Philosophical, Vehement, Causes

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• Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

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  History, Historical, Goes On

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