Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

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As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.

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Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

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Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.

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Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.

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Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

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If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

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The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

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An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.

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To freemen, threats are impotent.

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Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

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Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

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Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

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Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.

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I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.

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We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

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I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.

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Genius is fostered by industry.

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There is nothing god cannot do.

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Kindness is produced by kindness.

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