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Marcus Tullius Cicero quotes (88) Before beginning plan carefully. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Prepare I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Creation Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: History We should not be so taken up in the search for truth As to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value And commendation to virtue. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Action Time destroys the speculations of man But it confirms the judgment of nature. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Time As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body but can never be so in mind. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Youth Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Trouble When you are aspiring to the highest place it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Honor It is foolish to tear ones hair in grief as though sorrow would be made less with baldness. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Grief Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Justice The more laws the less justice. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Law I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Madness There is nothing so absurd (or ridiculous) but some philosopher has said it. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Absurd A happy life consists in tranquility of mind. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Happiness We are motivated by a keen desire for praise and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves even in those books which they write in contempt of glory inscribe their names. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Glory There is nothing which God cannot do. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Education True glory takes root and even spreads; all false pretences like flowers fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Pretension There are more men ennobled by study than by nature. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Reverence How long will you abuse our patience Catiline? Quo usque tandem abutere Catilina patientia nostra? Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Patience These studies are a spur to the young a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night they accompany us when we travel they are with us in our country visits. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Study Like associates with like. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Genius Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all the others. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Gratitude Reason should direct and appetite obey. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Easy I wonder that a soothsayer doesnt laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Fortuneteller Let the punishment match the offense. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Punish I criticize by creation not by finding fault. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Crisis It is not by muscle speed or physical dexterity that great things are achieved but by reflection force of character and judgment; in these qualities old age is usually not only not poorer but is even richer. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Gravity There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Proverb Nothing quite new is perfect. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Perfection The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Fortune One does not have to believe everything one hears. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Soul They condemn what they do not understand. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Condemn If you have a garden and a library you have everything you need. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Garden When you have no basis for an argument abuse the plaintiff. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Argument Ask not what your country can do for you but rather what you can do for your country. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Food Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Shadow There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness even though it be not perpetrated in the act. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Wickedness Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Confidence Brevity is the best recommendation of speech whether in a senator or an orator. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Breeding The pursuit even of the best things ought to be calm And tranquil. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Moderation We are slaves of the law so that we may be able to be free. Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Freedom The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Ambition Nothing is more praiseworthy nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Mercy To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Mistake Nothing dries sooner than a tear. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Cry Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Memory No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate who considers pleasure the highest good. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Brave He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Passion No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Age As you sow so will you reap. Ut sementem feceris ita metes Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Consequences It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Curiosity Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Orators A man has no enemy worse than himself. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Judge Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Conversation If we are not ashamed to think it we should not be ashamed to say it. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Shame Whatever is done without ostentation and without the people being witnesses of it is in my opinion most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this the greatest theater for virtue is conscience. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Conscience Every stage of human life except the last is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Life I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Peace The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Teach Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times places and stages of life but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home and are no embarrassment abroad; in short they are company to us at night our fellow travelers on a journey and attendants in our rural recesses. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Letter I add this that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Ability A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but also the parent of all other virtues. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Thank Each mans mind is the man himself! Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Mind If we are forced at every hour to watch or listen to horrible events this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: News No Sane man will dance. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Dance In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellowmen. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Good If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother luxury. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Avarice There is no place more delightful than ones own fireplace. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Unsorted To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is mans lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times? Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Children Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Credit No one can give you better advice than yourself. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Advice Endless money forms the sinews of war. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Money In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Satisfied A room without books is like a body without a soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Book I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: If No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Liberal He is never less at leisure than when at leisure nor less alone than when he is alone. Never less idle than when wholly idle nor less alone than when wholly alone. Numquam se minus otiosum esse quam quum otiosus nec minus solum quam quum solus esset. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Lonely Nothing is more noble nothing more venerable than fidelity. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Friendship Law is intelligence whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrong doing. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Conduct To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Library In the master there is a servant in the servant a master. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Leadership To think is to live. Vivere est cogitare. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Thief By doubting we come at truth. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Truth A mans own manner and character is what most becomes him. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Manners If you pursue good with labor the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure the pleasure passes away and the evil remains. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Evil We are born to unite with our fellow men and to join in community with the human race. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Brotherhood There is no fortress so strong that money cannot take it. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Wealth As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character boils over and is at once dissipated and vanishes. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Accusations |
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