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-Marcus Tullius Cicero

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These (literary) Studies Are The Food Of Youth, And Consolation Of Age; They Adorn Prosperity, And Are The Comfort And Refuge Of Adversity; They Are Pleasant At Home, And Are No Incumbrance Abroad; They Accompany Us At Night, In Our Travels, And In Our Rural Retreats.

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No One Has Lived A Short Life Who Has Performed Its Duties With Unblemished Character.

A Thankful Heart Is The Greatest Virtue.

"what Greater Gift Can We Offer The Republic Than To Teach And Instruct Our Youth?"

The Well-known Old Remark Of Cato, Who Used To Wonder How Two Soothsayers Could Look One Another In The Face Without Laughing.

Peace Is So Beneficial That The Word Itself Is Pleasant To Hear.

If You Have A Garden And A Library, You Have Everything You Need.

Not To Be Avaricious Is Money; Not To Be Fond Of Buying Is A Revenue; But To Be Content With Our Own Is The Greatest And Most Certain Wealth Of All.

It Is Not The Place That Maketh The Person, But The Person That Maketh The Place Honorable.

Socrates, Indeed, When He Was Asked Of What Country He Called Himself, Said, "of The World"; For He Considered Himself An Inhabitant And A Citizen Of The Whole World.

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

To Live Long, Live Slowly.

A Sensual And Intemperate Youth Hands Over A Worn-out Body To Old Age. [lat., Libidinosa Etenim Et Intemperans Adolescentiam Effoetum Corpus Tradit Senectuti.]

The Chief Recommendation Is Modesty, Then Dutiful Conduct Toward Parents, Then Affection For Kindred.

Time Is The Herald Of Truth.

A Community Is Like The Ones Who Govern It.

A Man Of Courage Is Also Full Of Faith.

Dogs Wait For Us Faithfully.

Though Silence Is Not Necessarily An Admission, It Is Not A Denial, Either.

What Is Morally Wrong Can Never Be Advantageous, Even When It Enables You To Make Some Gain That You Believe To Be To Your Advantage. The Mere Act Of Believing That Some Wrongful Course Of Action Constitutes An Advantage Is Pernicious.

Not To Know What Has Been Transacted In Former Times Is To Be Always A Child. If No Use Is Made Of The Labors Of Past Ages, The World Must Remain Always In The Infancy Of Knowledge.

He Who Acknowledges A Kindness Has It Still, And He Who Has A Grateful Sense Of It Has Requited It.

We Should Be As Careful Of Our Words As Of Our Actions.

Friendship, On The Other Hand, Serves A Great Host Of Different Purposes All At The Same Time. In Whatever Direction You Turn, It Still Remains Yours. No Barrier Can Shut It Out. It Can Never Be Untimely; It Can Never Be In The Way. We Need Friendship All The Time, Just As Much As We Need The Proverbial Prime Necessities Of Life, Fire And Water.

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

For There Is But One Essential Justice Which Cements Society, And One Law Which Establishes This Justice. This Law Is Right Reason, Which Is The True Rule Of All Commandments And Prohibitions. Whoever Neglects This Law, Whether Written Or Unwritten, Is Necessarily Unjust And Wicked.

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

What Nobler Employment, Or More Valuable To The State, Than That Of The Man Who Instructs The Rising Generation?

Let Our Friends Perish, Provided That Our Enemies Fall At The Same Time.

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.

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

Virtue Is Uniform, Conformable To Reason, And Of Unvarying Consistency; Nothing Can Be Added To It That Can Make It More Than Virtue; Nothing Can Be Taken From It, And The Name Of Virtue Be Left.

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.

You Might As Well Take The Sun Out Of The Sky As Friendship From Life: For The Immortal Gods Have Given Us Nothing Better Or More Delightful.

No One Dies Too Soon Who Has Finished The Course Of Perfect Virtue.

In Men Of The Highest Character And Noblest Genius There Is To Be Found An Insatiable Desire For Honor, Command, Power, And Glory.

Whatever Befalls In Accordance With Nature Should Be Accounted Good.

Death Darkens His Eyes, And Unplumes His Wings, Yet The Sweetest Song Is The Last He Sings: Live So, My Love, That When Death Shall Come, Swan-like And Sweet It May Waft Thee Home.

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

Times Are Bad. Children No Longer Obey Their Parents, And Everyone Is Writing A Book.

The Mansion Should Not Be Graced By Its Master, The Master Should Grace The Mansion.

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

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

For Even If The Allotted Space Of Life Be Short, It Is Long Enough In Which To Live Honorably And Well.

The Aim Of Justice Is To Give Everyone His Due.

The Works Of Nature Must All Be Accounted Good.

Any Man Can Make Mistakes, But Only An Idiot Persists In His Error.

In Times Of War, The Law Falls Silent.

I Have Never Yet Known A Poet Who Did Not Think Himself Super-excellent.

We Do Not Destroy Religion By Destroying Superstition.

I Never Admire Another's Fortune So Much That I Became Dissatisfied With My Own.

Everyone Has His Besetting Sin.

Glory Follows Virtue As If It Were Its Shadow.

Liberty Is Rendered Even More Precious By The Recollection Of Servitude.

Virtue Is Increased By The Smile Of Approval; And The Love Of Renown Is The Greatest Incentive To Honourable Acts.

An Intemperate, Disorderly Youth Will Bring To Old Age, A Feeble And Worn-out Body.

No One Could Ever Meet Death For His Country Without The Hope Of Immortality.

Everything Is Alive... Everything Is Interconnected.

It Shows Nobility To Be Willing To Increase Your Debt To A Man To Whom You Already Owe Much.

While The Sick Man Has Life, There Is Hope.

While There's Life, There's Hope.

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

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.

The First Bond Of Society Is Marriage.

There Is Nothing So Charming As The Knowledge Of Literature; Of That Branch Of Literature, I Mean, Which Enables Us To Discover The Infinity Of Things, The Immensity Of Nature, The Heavens, The Earth, And The Seas; This Is That Branch Which Has Taught Us Religion, Moderation, Magnanimity, And That Has Rescued The Soul From Obscurity; To Make Her See All Things Above And Below, First And Last, And Between Both; It Is This That Furnishes Us Wherewith To Live Well And Happily, And Guides Us To Pass Our Lives Without Displeasure And Without Offence.

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

For Just As Some Women Are Said To Be Handsome Though Without Adornment, So This Subtle Manner Of Speech, Though Lacking In Artificial Graces, Delights Us.

No One Has Leave To Sin.

A Letter Does Not Blush.

Not Cohabitation But Consensus Constitutes Marriage.

No One Sees What Is Before His Feet: They Scan The Tracks Of Heaven.

If You Wish To Persuade Me, You Must Think My Thoughts, Feel My Feelings, And Speak My Words.

Strict Law Is Often Great Injustice.

The Man Who Commands Efficiently Must Have Obeyed Others In The Past, And The Man Who Obeys Dutifully Is Worthy Of Someday Being A Commander.

No One Dances Sober, Unless He Is Insane.

While All Other Things Are Uncertain, Evanescent, And Ephemeral, Virtue Alone Is Fixed With Deep Roots; It Can Neither Be Overthrown By Any Violence Or Moved From Its Place.

A Youth Of Sensuality And Intemperance Delivers Over To Old Age A Worn-out Body.

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.

It Shows A Brave And Resolute Spirit Not To Be Agitated In Exciting Circumstances.

The Evil Implanted In Man By Nature Spreads So Imperceptibly, When The Habit Of Wrong-doing Is Unchecked, That He Himself Can Set No Limit To His Shamelessness.

To Freemen, Threats Are Impotent. [lat., Nulla Enim Minantis Auctoritas Apud Liberos Est.]

Our Character Is Not So Much The Product Of Race And Heredity As Of Those Circumstances By Which Nature Forms Our Habits, By Which We Are Nurtured And Live.

Life Is Short, But Art Lives Forever.

What Is Impossible By The Nature Of Things Is Not Confirmed By Any Law.

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.

Honor Is The Reward Of Virtue.

Even If You Have Nothing To Write, Write And Say So.

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

These Studies Are A Spur To The Young, A Delight To The Old: An Ornament In Prosperity, A Consoling Refuge In Adversity; They Are Pleasure For Us At Home, And No Burden Abroad; They Stay Up With Us At Night, They Accompany Us When We Travel, They Are With Us In Our Country Visits.

There Is No Grief Which Time Does Not Lessen And Soften. [lat., Nullus Dolor Est Quem Non Longinquitas Temporis Minuat Ac Molliat.]

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.

Six Mistakes Mankind Keeps Making Century After Century: Believing That Personal Gain Is Made By Crushing Others; Worrying About Things That Cannot Be Changed Or Corrected; Insisting That A Thing Is Impossible Because We Cannot Accomplish It; Refusing To Set Aside Trivial Preferences; Neglecting Development And Refinement Of The Mind; Attempting To Compel Others To Believe And Live As We Do.

What Is More Agreeable Than One's Home?

Let A Man Practice The Profession Which He Best Knows.

The Law Is Silent During War. [lat., Silent Leges Inter Arma.]

It Shows A Weak Mind Not To Bear Prosperity As Well As Adversity With Moderation.

There Has Never Been A Poet Or Orator Who Thought Another Better Than Himself.

My Precept To All Who Build, Is, That The Owner Should Be An Ornament To The House, And Not The House To The Owner.

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.

Great Is The Power, Great Is The Authority Of A Senate That Is Unanimous In Its Opinions.

The Roots Of Knowledge Are Bitter, But Its Fruit Are Sweet.

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

Justice Renders To Every One His Due.

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

Can There Be Greater Foolishness Than The Respect You Pay To People Collectively When You Despise Them Individually?

We Should Be Careful That Our Benevolence Does Not Exceed Our Means.

No One Was Ever Great Without Some Portion Of Divine Inspiration.

Divine Inspiration

Ability Without Honor Is Useless.

For Surely To Be Wise Is The Most Desirable Thing In All The World.

The Multitude Of Fools Is A Protection To The Wise.

Most Happy Is He Who Is Entirely Self-reliant, And Who Centers All His Requirements In Himself Alone.

Never Injure A Friend, Even In Jest.

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.

Favours Out Of Place I Regard As Positive Injuries.

Slowly And Imperceptibly Old Age Comes Creeping On.

Judge Not By The Number, But By The Weight.

Every Word That Is Unnecessary Only Pours Over The Side Of A Brimming Mind.

The Devil Finds Work For Idle Hands To Do. Better To Reign In The Hell Than Serve In Heaven. We Are In Bondage To The Law In Order That We May Be Free.

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.

Nor Do I Regret That I Have Lived, Since I Have So Lived That I Think I Was Not Born In Vain, And I Quit Life As If It Were An Inn, Not A Home.

Excessive Liberty Leads Both Nations And Individuals Into Excessive Slavery. [lat., Nimia Libertas Et Populis Et Privatis In Nimiam Servitutem Cadit.]

The Authority Of Those Who Teach Is Often An Obstacle To Those Who Want To Learn.

So Near Is Falsehood To Truth That A Wise Man Would Do Well Not To Trust Himself On The Narrow Edge.

All Great Men Are Partially Inspired.

If Wisdom Be Attainable, Let Us Not Only Win But Enjoy It.

The Causes Of Events Are Ever More Interesting Than The Events Themselves.

No Phase Of Life, Whether Public Or Private, Can Be Free From Duty.

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

Orators Are Most Vehement When Their Cause Is Weak.

Before Beginning, Prepare Carefully.

Politicians Are Not Born; They Are Excreted.

There Is No Fortune So Strong That Money Cannot Take It.

Sound Conviction Should Influence Us Rather Than Public Opinion.

A Good Orator Is Pointed And Impassioned.

Self Improvement

Public Speaking

The Hours Pass And The Days And The Months And The Years, And The Past Time Never Returns.

The Diligent Farmer Plants Trees, Of Which He Himself Will Never See The Fruit.

Cicero Is Dead! Cicero Is Born! The Laughter Has Filled Me, Filled Me So Very Completely. I Am The Laughter. I Am The Jester. The Soul That Has Served As My Constant Companion For So Long Has Breached The Veil Of The Void Finally And Forever. It Is Now In Me. It Is Me. The World Has Seen The Last Of Cicero The Man. Behold Cicero, Fool Of Hearts - Laughter Incarnate!

The Precepts Of The Law Are These: To Live Honestly, To Injure No One, And To Give Everyone Else His Due.

I Know Not Any Season Of Life That Is Past More Agreeably Than Virtuous Old Age.

Let The Punishment Be Equal With The Offence. [lat., Noxiae Poena Par Esto.]

The Whole Life Of A Philosopher Is The Meditation Of His Death.

All Soils Are Not Fertile.

It Is Difficult To Persuade Mankind That The Love Of Virtue Is The Love Of Themselves.

Care Should Be Taken That The Punishment Does Not Exceed The Guilt; And Also That Some Men Do Not Suffer For Offenses For Which Others Are Not Even Indicted.

Trust No One Unless You Have Eaten Much Salt With Him.

Though Liberty Is Established By Law, We Must Be Vigilant, For Liberty To Enslave Us Is Always Present Under That Very Liberty. Our Constitution Speaks Of The "general Welfare Of The People." Under That Phrase All Sorts Of Excesses Can Be Employed By Lusting Tyrants To Make Us Bondsmen.

For It Is Commonly Said: Accomplished Labours Are Pleasant.

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

I Criticize By Creation - Not By Finding Fault.

Oh, How Great Is The Power Of Truth! Which Of Its Own Power Can Easily Defend Itself Against All The Ingenuity And Cunning And Wisdom Of Men, And Against The Treacherous Plots Of All The World.

Nothing So Cements And Holds Together All The Parts Of A Society As Faith Or Credit, Which Can Never Be Kept Up Unless Men Are Under Some Force Or Necessity Of Honestly Paying What They Owe To One Another.

It Is A Man's Own Dishonesty, His Crimes, His Wickedness, And Boldness, That Takes Away From Him Soundness Of Mind; These Are The Furies, These The Flames And Firebrands, Of The Wicked.

Hunger Is The Best Sauce.

You Will Be As Much Value To Others As You Have Been To Yourself.

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

True Glory Strikes Root, And Even Extends Itself; All False Pretensions Fall As Do Flowers, Nor Can Any Feigned Thing Be Lasting.

I Am Pleased To Be Praised By A Man So Praised As You, Father. [words Used By Hector.] [lat., Laetus Sum Laudari Me Abs Te, Pater, Laudato Viro.]

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.

Unraveling The Web Of Penelope.

The Wise Are Instructed By Reason, Average Minds By Experience, The Stupid By Necessity And The Brute By Instinct.

He Takes The Greatest Ornament From Friendship, Who Takes Modesty From It. [lat., Maximum Ornamentum Amicitiae Tollit, Qui Ex Ea Tollit Verecudiam.]

But As To The Affection Which Anyone May Have For Us, It Is The First Demand Of Duty That We Do Most For Him Who Loves Us Most; But We Should Measure Affection, Not Like Youngsters, By The Ardour Of Its Passion, But Rather By Its Strength And Constancy.

Who Does Not Know That The First Law Of Historical Writing Is The Truth.

In A Disturbed Mind, As In A Body In The Same State, Health Can Not Exist.

Friendship Is The Only Point In Human Affairs Concerning The Benefit Of Which All, With One Voice, Agree.

The Foundation Of Justice Is Good Faith.

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

Laws Are Inoperative In War

To Reduce Man To The Duties Of His Own City, And To Disengage Him From Duties To The Members Of Other Cities, Is To Break The Universal Society Of The Human Race.

It Is Our Own Evil Thoughts Which Madden Us.

Too Much Liberty Leads Both Men And Nations To Slavery.

We Are Born Poets. We Become Orators.

Let The Welfare Of The People Be The Ultimate Law.

That Folly Of Old Age Which Is Called Dotage Is Peculiar To Silly Old Men, Not To Age Itself.

Now In Regard To Trades And Other Means Of Livelihood, Which Ones Are To Be Considered Becoming To A Gentleman And Which Ones Are Vulgar, We Have Been Taught, In General, As Follows. First, Those Means Of Livelihood Are Rejected As Undesirable Which Incur People's Ill-will, As Those Of Tax-gatherers And Usurers. Unbecoming To A Gentleman, Too, And Vulgar Are The Means Of Livelihood Of All Hired Workmen Whom We Pay For Mere Manual Labour, Not For Artistic Skill; For In Their Case The Very Wage They Receive Is A Pledge Of Their Slavery.

All The Arts Of Refinement Have Mutual Kinship.

When They Remain Silent, They Cry Out.

Pardon Is Granted To Necessity.

Nobody Can Give You Wiser Advice Than Yourself; You Will Never Err If You Listen To Your Own Suggestions.

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

That Last Day Does Not Bring Extinction To Us, But Change Of Place.

The Human Mind Ever Longs For Occupation.

In Fact The Whole Passion Ordinarily Termed Love (and Heaven Help Me If I Can Think Of Any Other Term To Apply To It) Is Of Such Exceeding Triviality That I See Nothing That I Think Comparable With It.

Orators Are Most Vehement When They Have The Weakest Cause, As Men Get On Horseback When They Cannot Walk.

The Avarice Of The Old: It's Absurd To Increase One's Luggage As One Nears The Journey's End.

The Harvest Of Old Age Is The Recollection And Abundance Of Blessing Previously Secured.

As Thou Sowest, So Shalt Thou Reap.

Fortune, Not Wisdom, Rules Lives.

Prudence In Action Avails More Than Wisdom In Conception.

Philosophy Is True Mother Of The Arts [of Science].

No Man Was Ever Great Without Divine Inspiration. [lat., Nemo Vir Magnus Aliquo Afflatu Divino Unquam Fuit.]

Learning Is A Kind Of Natural Food For The Mind.

For There Is Assuredly Nothing Dearer To A Man Than Wisdom, And Though Age Takes Away All Else, It Undoubtedly Brings Us That.

As I Approve Of A Youth That Has Something Of The Old Man In Him, So I Am No Less Pleased With An Old Man That Has Something Of The Youth. He That Follows This Rule May Be Old In Body, But Can Never Be So In Mind.

Nulla (enim) Res Tantum Ad Dicendum Proficit, Quantum Scriptio Nothing So Much Assists Learning As Writing Down What We Wish To Remember.

In A Republic This Rule Ought To Be Observed: That The Majority Should Not Have The Predominant Power.

Nature Herself Has Imprinted On The Minds Of All The Idea Of God

To Be Ignorant Of What Occurred Before You Were Born Is To Remain Always A Child. For What Is The Worth Of Human Life, Unless It Is Woven Into The Life Of Our Ancestors By The Records Of History?

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

There Is No Quality I Would Rather Have, And Be Thought To Have, Than Gratitude. For It Is Not Only The Greatest Virtue, But Is The Mother Of All The Rest.

No Liberal Man Would Impute A Charge Of Unsteadiness To Another For Having Changed His Opinion.

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