Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes, Past Quotes, Men Quotes

The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.

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Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things that are merely commonplace to existence. If we could hover over this great city, remove the roofs, and peep in at the things going on, it would make all fiction, with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions flat, stale and unprofitable.

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For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

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Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.

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When a man feels the difficulty of doing, can he be other than cautious and slow in speaking?

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I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

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The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for the sake of it prophets have died and been slain; without it the people will not live and cannot die.

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Think not because no man sees, such things will remain unseen.

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Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

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A holy man isn't aware that he's holy..As soon as we begin to talk about how holy we are, we aren't holy any more.

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Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.

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It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.

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Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

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When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

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The greatest force in the world today is the power of God as it works through man.

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Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.

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I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

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Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come Into the desolation of reality.

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