Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 7

• When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

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  Might, Resistance, Needs

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• To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

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  Errors, Fool, Persevere

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• Friends, though absent, are still present.

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  Friendship, Absence, Absent Friends

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.181

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• We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

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  Wise, Clever, Carpe Diem

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• There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

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  Inspirational, Soul, Divine Inspiration

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• True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

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  Agreement, Law, Trying

  "De Re Publica" by Marcus Tullius Cicero, translated by Clinton W. Keyes, Book III, Section (22), 1928.

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• Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.

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  Generosity, Should, Ability

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.26

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• The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

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  Inspirational, Life, Memories

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• Friends are proved by adversity.

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  Friendship, Friends, Adversity

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• What is permissible is not always honorable.

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  Honorable

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• It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.

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  Motivational, Fitness, Health

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1750). “Cato Major: Or, A Treatise on Old Age”, p.81

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• In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.

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  Teacher, Wish, Atheism

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• Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

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  Fear, Hate, Philosophical

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• O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

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  Men, Know How, Wretched

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• If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole system of credit and finance which is carried on here at Rome in the Forum, is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province. If Those revenues are destroyed, our whole system of credit will come down with a crash.

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  Believe, Rome, Investing

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• In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.

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  Men, Rights, Names

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• Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

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  Men, Annoyed, Suffering

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Epistolæ Ad Fratrem, I. 1, p. 265-67, 1922.

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• A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

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  Wisdom, Law, Politics

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• For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

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  Stupidity, Lust, Cowardice

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1853). “The treatises of M.T. Cicero on the nature of the gods [tr. by T.Francklin]; on divination; on fate; on the republic; on the laws; and on standing for the consulship, tr. chiefly by the ed. C.D.Yonge [and F.Barham].”, p.420

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• Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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  Food, Mind, Body

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• The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

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  Death, Memories, Grieving

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Maurice MACKAY (1855). “Select Orations of Marcus T. Cicero: together with the Treatises on Old Age and Friendship. Literally translated by the Rev. Dr. M'Kay ... Second edition”, p.138

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• By doubting we come at truth.

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  Life, Truth, Doubt

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• Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

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  Trust, Trust No One, Salt

  "Laelius De Amicitia (Laelius On Friendship)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Sections 19 and 67), 44 BC.

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• There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

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  Kindness, Duty

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.27

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• You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

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  Inspirational, Good Life, War

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