Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 6

• Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

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  Advice, Intention, Results

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• Let a man practise the profession he best knows.
  [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]

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  Men, Profession, Knows

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• The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

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  Guilt, Shame, Incitement

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• Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

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  Tradition, Conquer, Customs

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• We are not born for ourselves alone.

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  Responsibility, Born

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “The Orations”, p.18

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• Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake.

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  Justice, Rewards, Sake

  "On the Laws". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I, 18, c. 43 BC.

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• If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

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  Enemy, Plot, Violence

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• There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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  Nature, Men, Study

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• Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

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  Evil, Stronger, Bud

  Philippicae, V. 11,

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• Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.

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  Coats, Shabby

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• The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.

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  Mean, Things In Life, Leisure

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• Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

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  Life, Long, Shows

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• Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
  [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]

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  Eating

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• Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.

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  Mean, People, Community

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• It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

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  Men, Flames, Mind

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• The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

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  Desire, Thirst, Satisfied

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• The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, History

  Epistolae ad atticum Book IX, Section 5

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• A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

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  Philosophical, Tears, Trouble

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• The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

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  Freedom, Recovery, Splendid

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “Select Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.439

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• So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

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  Wise, Truth, Lying

  "Academici". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book IV, Chapter 21), translated, 45 BC.

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• After victory, you have more enemies.

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  War, Enemy, Victory

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• The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.

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  Suicide, World, Divinity

  "Tusculan Disputations". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 30, c. 45 BC.

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• Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

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  Baby, Children, Men

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Clinton Walker Keyes (1993). “Cicero in Twenty-eight Volumes: Pro Archiapoeta. Post reditum in senatu. Post reditum ad quirites. De domo sua.Deharuspicum responsis. Pro Plancio”

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• I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

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  Education, Teacher, Ignorance

  "Tusculan Disputations". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Book I. 25. 60, c. 45 BC.

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• Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

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  Taken, Men, Suffering

  "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 23., 44 B.C..

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