Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes, Reading Quotes, Heart Quotes

There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, 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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I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

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If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.

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The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

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Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.

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The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

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I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

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There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon in this kind of a nursery. Above all, I couldn't venture to attack the clergymen whom you mention, for I have their habits and live in the same glass house which they are occupying. I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.

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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

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Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an eclectic reading list.

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I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

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I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.

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He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.

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You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.

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