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It Is Graceful In A Man To Think And To Speak With Propriety, To Act With Deliberation, And In Every Occurrence Of Life To Find Out And Persevere In The Truth. On The Other Hand, To Be Imposed Upon, To Mistake, To Falter, And To Be Deceived, Is As Ungraceful As To Rave Or To Be Insane.

-Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

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It Is Graceful In A Man To Think And To Speak With Propriety, To Act With Deliberation, And In Every Occurrence Of Life To Find Out And Persevere In The Truth. On The Other Hand, To Be Imposed Upon, To Mistake, To Falter, And To Be Deceived, Is As Ungraceful As To Rave Or To Be Insane.

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In All Great Arts, As In Trees, It Is The Height That Charms Us; We Care Nothing For The Roots Or Trunks, Yet It Could Not Be Without The Aid Of These.

Physicians, When The Cause Of Disease Is Discovered, Consider That The Cure Is Discovered.

To Know The Laws Is Not To Memorize Their Letter But To Grasp Their Full Force And Meaning.

The Safety Of The People Shall Be The Highest Law.

The Consciousness Of Good Intention Is The Greatest Solace Of Misfortunes.

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It Is Better To Receive Than To Do Injury.

Death Is Dreadful To The Man Whose All Is Extinguished With His Life; But Not To Him Whose Glory Never Can Die.

Great Is Our Admiration Of The Orator Who Speaks With Fluency And Discretion.

Advice In Old Age Is Foolish; For What Can Be More Absurd Than To Increase Our Provisions For The Road The Nearer We Approach To Our Journey's End.

In Times Of War, The Law Falls Silent.

The First Bond Of Society Is The Marriage Tie; The Next Our Children; Then The Whole Family Of Our House, And All Things In Common.

Nothing Troubles You For Which You Do Not Yearn.

If Some Lose Their Whole Fortunes, They Will Drag Many More Down With Them . . . Believe Me That The Whole System Of Credit And Finance Which Is Carried On Here At Rome In The Forum, Is Inextricably Bound Up With The Revenues Of The Asiatic Province. If Those Revenues Are Destroyed, Our Whole System Of Credit Will Come Down With A Crash.

Too Much Liberty Leads Both Men And Nations To Slavery.

If A Man Could Mount To Heaven And Survey The Mighty Universe, His Admiration Of Its Beauties Would Be Much Diminished Unless He Had Someone To Share In His Pleasure.

Our Span Of Life Is Brief, But Is Long Enough For Us To Live Well And Honestly.

What Greater Or Better Gift Can We Offer The Republic Than To Teach And Instruct Our Youth? [lat., Quod Enim Munus Reiplicae Afferre Majus, Meliusve Possumus, Quam Si Docemus Atque Erudimus Juventutem?]

To Study Philosophy Is Nothing But To Prepare One’s Self To Die.

How Much In Love With Himself, And That Too Without A Rival!

When I Consider The Wonderful Activity Of The Mind, So Great A Memory Of What Is Past, And Such A Capacity Of Penetrating Into The Future: When I Behold Such A Number Of Arts And Sciences, And Such A Multitude Of Discoveries Hence Arising,--i Believe And Am Firmly Persuaded That A Nature Which Contains So Many Things Within Itself Cannot Be Mortal.

If We Are Not Ashamed To Think It, We Should Not Be Ashamed To Say It.

What Is There That Is Illustrious That Is Not Also Attended By Labor?

That Which Is Usually Called Dotage Is Not The Weak Point Of All Old Men, But Only Of Such As Are Distinguished By Their Levity.

There Is No Opinion So Stupid That It Can't Be Expressed By Some Philosopher.

A Man Of Courage Is Also Full Of Faith.

The Aim Of Forensic Oratory Is To Teach, To Delight, To Move.

It Is Foolish To Pluck Out One's Hair For Sorrow, As If Grief Could Be Assuaged By Baldness.

I Depart From Life As From An Inn, And Not As From My Home. [lat., Ex Vita Discedo, Tanquam Ex Hospitio, Non Tanquam Ex Domo.]

Scurrility Has No Object In View But Incivility; If It Is Uttered From Feelings Of Petulance, It Is Mere Abuse; If It Is Spoken In A Joking Manner, It May Be Considered Raillery.

Here Is A Man Whose Life And Actions The World Has Already Condemned - Yet Whose Enormous Fortune...has Already Brought Him Acquittal!

Pardon Is Granted To Necessity.

This, Therefore, Is A Law Not Found In Books, But Written On The Fleshly Tablets Of The Heart, Which We Have Not Learned From Man, Received Or Read, But Which We Have Caught Up From Nature Herself, Sucked In And Imbibed; The Knowledge Of Which We Were Not Taught, But For Which We Were Made; We Received It Not By Education, But By Intuition.

Robbing Life Of Friendship Is Like Robbing The World Of The Sun.

Gratitude Is Not Only The Greatest Of Virtues, But The Parent Of All The Others.

What Gift Has Providence Bestowed On Man That Is So Dear To Him As His Children?

Nothing Is More Noble, Nothing More Venerable Than Fidelity. Faithfulness And Truth Are The Most Sacred Excellences And Endowments Of The Human Mind.

I Criticize By Creation - Not By Finding Fault.

There Is No One Who Can Give You Wiser Advice Than You Can Give Yourself: You Will Never Make A Slip, If You Listen To Your Own Heart.

What Is Dignity Without Honesty?

Let War Be So Carried On That No Other Object May Seem To Be Sought But The Acquisition Of Peace. [lat., Bellum Autem Ita Suscipiatur, Ut Nihil Aliud, Nisi Pax, Quaesita Videatur.]

Strict Law Is Often Great Injustice.

Brevity Is A Great Charm Of Eloquence.

A Good Man Will Not Lie, Although It Be For His Profit.

Vicious Habits Are So Odious And Degrading That They Transform The Individual Who Practices Them Into An Incarnate Demon.

A Dissolute And Intemperate Youth Hands Down The Body To Old Age In A Worn-out State.

When Trying A Case [the Famous Judge] L. Cassius Never Failed To Inquire "who Gained By It?" Man's Character Is Such That No One Undertakes Crimes Without Hope Of Gain.

The Spirit Is The True Self. The Spirit, The Will To Win, And The Will To Excel Are The Things That Endure.

Inspirational Sports

The First Bond Of Society Is Marriage.

What Is Thine Is Mine, And All Mine Is Thine.

Nature Abhors Annihilation. [lat., Ab Interitu Naturam Abhorrere.]

The Good Of The People Is The Greatest Law.

What Society Does To Its Children, So Will Its Children Do To Society.

Hours And Days And Months And Years Go By; The Past Returns No More, And What Is To Be We Cannot Know; But Whatever The Time Gives Us In Which We Live, We Should Therefore Be Content.

All Places Are Filled With Fools. [lat., Stultorum Plenea Sunt Omnia.]

Let Flattery, The Handmaid Of The Vices, Be Far Removed (from Friendship). [lat., Assentatio, Vitiorum Adjutrix, Procul Amoveatur.]

No One Sees What Is Before His Feet: We All Gaze At The Stars. [lat., Quod Est Ante Pedes Nemo Spectat: Coeli Scrutantur Plagas.]

Friendship Is The Only Thing In The World Concerning The Usefulness Of Which All Mankind Are Agreed.

Not To Have Knowledge Of What Happened Before You Were Born Is To Be Condemned To Live As A Child.

To Give Counsel, As Well As To Take It, Is A Feature Of True Friendship.

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.

No Sensible Man Ever Imputes Inconsistency To Another For Changing His Minds.

It Might Be Pardonable To Refuse To Defend Some Men, But To Defend Them Negligently Is Nothing Short Of Criminal.

History Is The Teacher Of Life

In Anger Nothing Right Nor Judicious Can Be Done.

Sound Conviction Should Influence Us Rather Than Public Opinion.

They Are, All Of Them, Born With Raging Fanaticism In Their Hearts, Just As The Bretons And The Germans Are Born With Blond Hair. I Would Not Be In The Least Bit Surprised If These People Would Not Some Day Become Deadly To The Human Race.

To Those Who Are Engaged In Commercial Dealings, Justice Is Indispensable For The Conduct Of Business.

Softly! Softly! I Want None But The Judges To Hear Me. The Jews Have Already Gotten Me Into A Fine Mess, As They Have Many Other Gentleman. I Have No Desire To Furnish Further Grist For Their Mills.

No Deceit Is So Veiled As That Which Lies Concealed Behind The Semblance Of Courtesy.

Summer Lasts Not For Ever; Seasons Succeed Each Other.

The Higher We Are Placed, The More Humbly We Should Walk.

I Shall Always Consider The Best Guesser The Best Prophet.

What Then Is Freedom? The Power To Live As One Wishes.

All Literature, All Philosophical Treatises, All The Voices Of Antiquity Are Full Of Examples For Imitation, Which Would All Lie Unseen In Darkness Without The Light Of Literature.

No Man Can Be Brave Who Thinks Pain The Greatest Evil; Nor Temperate, Who Considers Pleasure The Highest God. [lat., Fortis Vero, Dolorem Summum Malum Judicans; Aut Temperans, Voluptatem Summum Bonum Statuens, Esse Certe Nullo Modo Potest.]

When A Government Becomes Powerful It Is Destructive, Extravagant And Violent; It Is An Usurer Which Takes Bread From Innocent Mouths And Deprives Honorable Men Of Their Substance, For Votes With Which To Perpetuate Itself.

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I Prefer The Most Unfair Peace To The Most Righteous War.

This Is A Proof Of A Well-trained Mind, To Rejoice In What Is Good And To Grieve At The Opposite.

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When You Wish To Instruct, Be Brief; That Men's [children's] Minds Take In Quickly What You Say, Learn Its Lesson, And Retain It Faithfully. Every Word That Is Unnecessary Only Pours Over The Side Of A Brimming Mind.

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Non Nobis Solum Nati Sumus. (not For Ourselves Alone Are We Born.)

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Justice Renders To Every One His Due.

If You Would Abolish Covetousness, You Must Abolish Its Mother, Profusion.

It Is Virtue, Virtue, Which Both Creates And Preserves Friendship. On It Depends Harmony Of Interest, Permanence, Fidelity.

Our Minds Possess By Nature An Insatiable Desire To Know The Truth.

It Is The Peculiar Quality Of A Fool To Perceive The Faults Of Others And To Forget His Own.

Even The Ablest Pilots Are Willing To Receive Advice From Passengers In Tempestuous Weather.

I Will Adhere To The Counsels Of Good Men, Although Misfortune And Death Should Be The Consequence.

The Countenance Is The Portrait Of The Soul, And The Eyes Mark Its Intentions.

They Are Eloquent Who Can Speak Low Things Acutely, And Of Great Things With Dignity, And Of Moderate Things With Temper.

It Is As Hard For The Good To Suspect Evil, As It Is For The Bad To Suspect Good.

This Is Our Special Duty, That If Anyone Specially Needs Our Help, We Should Give Him Such Help To The Utmost Of Our Power.

We Ought To Regard Amiability As The Quality Of Woman, Dignity That Of Man.

He Removes The Greatest Ornament Of Friendship Who Takes Away From It Respect.

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Friendship Is Nothing Else Than An Accord In All Things, Human And Divine, Conjoined With Mutual Goodwill And Affection.

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.

Nothing Is More Noble, Nothing More Venerable Than Fidelity.

In A Disordered Mind, As In A Disordered Body, Soundness Of Health Is Impossible.

Come Now: Do We Really Think That The Gods Are Everywhere Called By The Same Names By Which They Are Addressed By Us? But The Gods Have As Many Names As There Are Languages Among Humans. For It Is Not With The Gods As With You: You Are Velleius Wherever You Go, But Vulcan Is Not Vulcan In Italy And In Africa And In Spain.

There Is Nothing Better Fitted To Delight The Reader Than Change Of Circumstances And Varieties Of Fortune.

Life Is Nothing Without Friendship.

There Is No Place More Delightful Than Home.

Dogs Wait For Us Faithfully.

In The Conduct Of Almost Every Affair Slowness And Procrastination Are Hateful

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It Is Of No Avail To Know What Is About To Happen; For It Is A Sad Thing To Be Grieved When Grief Can Do No Good.

The Master Sometimes Serves, And The Servant Sometimes Is Master.

In Our Amusements A Certain Limit Is To Be Placed That We May Not Devote Ourselves To A Life Of Pleasure And Thence Fall Into Immorality.

The Eyes, Like Sentinels, Hold The Highest Place In The Body. [lat., Oculi, Tanquam, Speculatores, Altissimum Locum Obtinent.]

Things Sacred Should Not Only Be Touched With The Hands, But Unviolated In Thought. [lat., Res Sacros Non Modo Manibus Attingi, Sed Ne Cogitatione Quidem Violari Fas Fuit.]

For Nothing Is More Commendable, Nothing More Becoming In A Preeminently Great Man Than Courtesy And Forbearance.

We Are Motivated By A Keen Desire For Praise, And The Better A Man Is The More He Is Inspired By Glory. The Very Philosophers Themselves, Even In Those Books Which They Write In Contempt Of Glory, Inscribe Their Names.

True Glory Takes Root, And Even Spreads; All False Pretences, Like Flowers, Fall To The Ground; Nor Can Any Counterfeit Last Long.

Through Doubt We Arrive At The Truth.

What Sweetness Is Left In Life, If You Take Away Friendship? Robbing Life Of Friendship Is Like Robbing The World Of The Sun. A True Friend Is More To Be Esteemed Than Kinsfolk.

Opinionum Enim Commenta Delet Dies; Naturæ Judicia Confirmat. Time Destroys The Groundless Conceits Of Men; It Confirms Decisions Founded On Reality.

We Are All Excited By The Love Of Praise, And The Noblest Are Most Influenced By Glory.

Nothing Is So Swift As Calumny, Nothing Is More Easily Propagated, Nothing More Readily Credited, Nothing More Widely Circulated.

They Who Say That We Should Love Our Fellow-citizens But Not Foreigners, Destroy The Universal Brotherhood Of Mankind, With Which Benevolence And Justice Would Perish Forever.

The Jews Belong To A Dark And Repulsive Force. One Knows How Numerous This Clique Is, How They Stick Together And What Power They Exercise Through Their Unions. They Are A Nation Of Rascals And Deceivers.

It Has Seemed To Be More Necessary To Have Regard To The Weight Of Words Rather Than To Their Number.

Longing Not So Much To Change Things As To Overturn Them.

Rashness Is The Companion Of Youth, Prudence Of Old Age.

Everyone Cleaves To The Doctrine He Has Happened Upon, As To A Rock Against Which He Has Been Thrown By Tempest.

No Grief Is So Acute But Time Ameliorates It.

Always The Same Thing.

As I Breathe, I Hope.

The Greatest Incitement To Guilt Is The Hope Of Sinning With Impunity.

Men Decide Far More Problems By Hate, Love, Lust, Rage, Sorrow, Joy, Hope, Fear, Illusion Or Some Other Inward Emotion, Than By Reality, Authority, Any Legal Standard, Judicial Precedent, Or Statute.

Reason Is The Mistress And Queen Of All Things. [lat., Domina Omnium Et Regina Ratio.]

Not To Know What Happened Before You Were Born Is To Be A Child Forever. For What Is The Time Of A Man, Except It Be Interwoven With That Memory Of Ancient Things Of A Superior Age?

History Illumes Reality, Vitalizes Memory, Provides Guidance In Daily Life

History Of Life

In Ancient Times Music Was The Foundation Of All The Sciences. Education Was Begun With Music With The Persuasion That Nothing Could Be Expected Of A Man Who Was Ignorant Of Music.

If We Lose Affection And Kindliness From Our Life: We Lose All That Gives It Charm.

A S Laws Multiply, Injustice Increases.

I Have Always Been Of The Opinion That Unpopularity Earned By Doing What Is Right Is Not Unpopularity At All, But Glory.

No One Dances Sober, Unless He Is Insane.

No One Is So Old That He Does Not Think He Could Live Another Year.

If Only Every Man Would Make Proper Use Of His Strength And Do His Utmost, He Need Never Regret His Limited Ability.

To The Sick, While There Is Life There Is Hope. [lat., Aegroto Dum Anima Est, Spes Est.]

Peace Is Liberty In Tranquillity.

Pleasant Is The Recollection Of Dangers Past.

It Is The Character Of A Brave And Resolute Man Not To Be Ruffled By Adversity And Not To Desert His Post.

For It Is Commonly Said: Accomplished Labours Are Pleasant.

I Cheerfully Quit From Life As If It Were An Inn, Not A Home; For Nature Has Given Us A Hostelry In Which To Sojourn, Not To Abide.

We Can More Easily Avenge An Injury Than Requite A Kindness; On This Account, Because There Is Less Difficulty In Getting The Better Of The Wicked Than In Making One's Self Equal With The Good.

Nothing Is So Difficult To Believe That Oratory Cannot Make It Acceptable, Nothing So Rough And Uncultured As Not To Gain Brilliance And Refinement From Eloquence.

He Has No Worse Enemy Than Himself.

For Of All Gainful Professions, Nothing Is Better, Nothing More Pleasing, Nothing More Delightful, Nothing Better Becomes A Well-bred Man Than #‎ Agriculture

It Is A Crime To Put A Roman Citizen In Chains, It Is An Enormity To Flog One, Sheer Murder To Slay One: What, Then, Shall I Say Of Crucifixion? It Is Impossible To Find The Word For Such An Abomination.

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.

I Remember The Very Thing That I Do Not Wish To; I Cannot Forget The Things I Wish To Forget.

There Is In Fact A True Law Namely Right Reason, Which Is In Accordance With Nature, Applies To All Men And Is Unchangeable And Eternal. ... It Will Not Lay Down One Rule At Rome And Another At Athens, Nor Will It Be One Rule Today And Another Tomorrow. But There Will Be One Law Eternal And Unchangeable Binding All Times And Upon All Peoples.

Man's Life Is Ruled By Fortune, Not By Wisdom.

Nature Has Lent Us Life At Interest, Like Money, And Has Fixed No Day For Its Payment.

There Is Not Only An Art, But An Eloquence In It.

The Foundation Of Justice Is Good Faith.

Who Can Love The Man He Fears. Or By Who He Thinks He Is Himself Feared?

A Bureaucrat Is The Most Despicable Of Men, Though He Is Needed As Vultures Are Needed, But One Hardly Admires Vultures Whom Bureaucrats So Strangely Resemble. I Have Yet To Meet A Bureaucrat Who Was Not Petty, Dull, Almost Witless, Crafty Or Stupid, An Oppressor Or A Thief, A Holder Of Little Authority In Which He Delights, As A Boy Delights In Possessing A Vicious Dog. Who Can Trust Such Creatures?

A Thankful Heart Is Not Only The Greatest Virtue But The Parent Of All The Other Virtues.

O Tempora! O Mores! O What Times (are These)! What Morals!

But The Night Mother Is Mother To All! It Is Her Voice We Follow! Her Will! Would You Dare Risk Disobedience? And Surely... Punishment?

Democritus Maintains That There Can Be No Great Poet Without A Spite Of Madness.

The Eyes Like Sentinel Occupy The Highest Place In The Body.

A Bachelor's Bed Is The Most Pleasant.

Not Cohabitation But Consensus Constitutes Marriage.

Nothing Is More Unreliable Than The Populace, Nothing More Obscure Than Human Intentions, Nothing More Deceptive Than The Whole Electoral System.

The Recovery Of Freedom Is So Splendid A Thing That We Must Not Shun Even Death When Seeking To Recover It.

Civilized People Are Taught By Logic, Barbarians, By Necessity, Communities By Tradition; And The Lesson Inculcated Even In Wild Beasts By Nature Itself. They Learn That They Have To Defend Their Own Bodies And Persons Lives From Violence Of Any And Every Kind By All Means Within Their Power.

For If That Last Day Does Not Occasion An Entire Extinction, But A Change Of Abode Only, What Can Be More Desirable? And If It, On The Other Hand, Destroys And Absolutely Puts An End To Us, What Can Be Preferable To Having A Deep Sleep Fall On Us In The Midst Of The Fatigues Of Life And, Being Thus Overtaken, To Sleep To Eternity?

He He He... Crazy? Cicero? He He He He! That's... Madness.

Nothing Contributes To The Entertainment Of The Reader More, Than The Change Of Times And The Vicissitudes Of Fortune.

If A Man Aspires To The Highest Place, It Is No Dishonor To Him To Halt At The Second, Or Even At The Third.

All I Can Do Is To Urge On You To Regard Friendship As The Greatest Thing In The World; For There Is Nothing Which So Fits In With Our Nature, Or Is So Exactly What We Want In Prosperity Or Adversity.

Tomorrow Will Give Us Something To Think About

For No Phase Of Life, Whether Public Or Private, Whether In Business Or In The Home, Whether One Is Working On What Concerns Oneself Alone Or Dealing With Another, Can Be Without Its Moral Duty; On The Discharge Of Such Duties Depends All That Is Morally Right, And On Their Neglect All That Is Morally Wrong In Life.

Next To God We Are Nothing. To God We Are Everything.

The Administration Of Government, Like A Guardianship Ought To Be Directed To The Good Of Those Who Confer, Not Of Those Who Receive The Trust.

To Add A Library To A House Is To Give That House A Soul.

I Cease Not To Advocate Peace; Even Though Unjust It Is Better Than The Most Just War.

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