Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes, Character Quotes, Men Quotes

When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

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Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on us," as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. "Self is the Saviour of self, none else."

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I am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think.

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Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?

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

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I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.

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It is only when men lose their contact with this eternal life-flame, and become merely personal, things in themselves, instead ofthings kindled in the flame, that the fight between man and woman begins.

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Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

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A man who will be the public leader, must know how to be the public follower.

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When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

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Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.

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An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.

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Henceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men's opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God. I find him in the bottom of my heart, and I hear continually his voice therein.

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There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana.

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If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

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Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally impressed with that necessity. They began with the fact of sin-a fact as practical as potatoes. Whether or not man could be washed in miraculous waters, there was no doubt at any rate that he wanted washing.

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If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

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We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

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It is curious - but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. ... Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.

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Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.

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