Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."

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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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Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

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The popular breeze - Aura popularis

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Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.

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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 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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Philosophy is the true mother of science.

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From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.

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It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

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Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

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If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

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But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

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The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.

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

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It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

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The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

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Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

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Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

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