Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

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Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

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Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

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In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

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We are not born for ourselves alone.

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It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

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Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

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The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

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Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

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Hatred is a settled anger.

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When they remain silent, they cry out.

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In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.

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I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

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I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

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Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

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Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.

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I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

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Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.

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