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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.

-Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

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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.

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Nothing Troubles You For Which You Do Not Yearn.

Sed Nescio Quo Modo Nihil Tam Absurde Dici Potest Quod Non Dicatur Ab Aliquo Philosphorum. (there Is Nothing So Absurd But Some Philosopher Has Said It.)

There Is Nothing Which God Cannot Do. [lat., Nihil Est Quod Deus Efficere Non Possit.]

Saving The Virtues Includes All Other Advantages

No Poet Or Orator Has Ever Existed Who Believed There Was Any Better Than Himself.

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.]

Strict Law Is Often Great Injustice.

Nothing Is So Strongly Fortified That It Cannot Be Taken By Money.

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.

What Is Dishonestly Got Vanishes In Profligacy.

There Are Gems Of Thought That Are Ageless And Eternal.

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

A Friend Is, As It Were, A Second Self.

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.

Frugality Includes All The Other Virtues.

Peace Is Liberty In Tranquillity.

An Ancient Custom Obtains Force Of Nature.

Forces Of Nature

All Soils Are Not Fertile.

Art Is Born Of The Observation And Investigation Of Nature.

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

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

Glory Follows Virtue As If It Were Its Shadow.

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.

Man Is His Own Worst Enemy. [lat., Nihil Inimicius Quam Sibi Ipse.]

Prosperity Demands Of Us More Prudence And Moderation Than Adversity.

Frivolity Is Inborn, Conceit Acquired By Education.

The Popular Breeze - Aura Popularis

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

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

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

We Must Not Only Obtain Wisdom: We Must Enjoy Her.

Through Ignorance Of What Is Good And What Is Bad, The Life Of Men Is Greatly Perplexed.

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.]

He Does Not Seem To Me To Be A Free Man Who Does Not Sometimes Do Nothing.

In A Discussion Of This Kind Our Interest Should Be Centered Not On The Weight Of The Authority But On The Weight Of The Argument. Indeed The Authority Of Those Who Set Out To Teach Is Often An Impediment To Those Who Wish To Learn. They Cease To Use Their Own Judgment And Regard As Gospel Whatever Is Put Forward By Their Chosen Teacher.

The Life Of The Dead Is Placed In The Memory Of The Living.

Cultivation To The Mind Is As Necessary As Food To The Body.

The Rule Of Friendship Means There Should Be Mutual Sympathy Between Them, Each Supplying What The Other Lacks And Trying To Benefit The Other, Always Using Friendly And Sincere Words.

No One Has The Right To Be Sorry For Himself For A Misfortune That Strikes Everyone.

Thrift Is Of Great Revenue.

We Must Not Say That Every Mistake Is A Foolish One.

Lucius Cassius Ille Quem Populus Romanus Verissimum Et Sapientissimum Iudicem Putabat Identidem In Causis Quaerere Solebat 'cui Bono' Fuisset. The Famous Lucius Cassius, Whom The Roman People Used To Regard As A Very Honest And Wise Judge, Was In The Habit Of Asking, Time And Again, 'to Whose Benefit?

The Man Who Is Always Fortunate Cannot Easily Have A Great Reverence For Virtue.

He Who Obeys With Modesty Appears Worthy Of Being Some Day A Commander.

There Is No Treasure The Which May Be Compared Unto A Faithful Friend; Gold Some Decayeth, And Worldly Wealth Consumeth, And Wasteth In The Winde; But Love Once Planted In A Perfect And Pure Minde Indureth Weale And Woe; The Frownes Of Fortune, Come They Never So Unkinde, Cannot The Same Overthrowe.

Vicious Habits Are So Great A Stain To Human Nature, And So Odious In Themselves, That Every Person Actuated By Right Reason Would Avoid Them, Though He Were Sure They Would Be Always Concealed Both From God And Man, And Had No Future Punishment Entailed Upon Them.

Kindness Is Produced By Kindness.

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.

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.

Never Injure A Friend, Even In Jest.

There Is No Thing Which God Cannot Accomplish.

Everyone Has His Besetting Sin.

Man Was Born For Two Things--thinking And Acting.

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

Let Us Not Go Over The Old Ground But Rather Prepare For What Is To Come.

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.

For While We Are Enclosed In These Confinements Of The Body, We Perform As A Kind Of Duty The Heavy Task Of Necessity; For The Soul From Heaven Has Been Cast Down From Its Dwelling On High And Sunk, As It Were, Into The Earth, A Place Just The Opposite To Godlike Nature And Eternity. But I Believe That The Immortal Gods Have Sown Souls In Human Bodies So There Might Exist Beings To Guard The World And After Contemplating The Order Of Heaven, Might Imitate It By Their Moderation And Steadfastness In Life.

Enmity Is Anger Watching The Opportunity For Revenge.

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

I Will Go Further, And Assert That Nature Without Culture Can Often Do More To Deserve Praise Than Culture Without Nature.

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

Let Arms Yield To The Toga, Let The [victor's] Laurel Yield To The [orator's] Tongue.

We Are Not Born For Ourselves Alone.

A Man's Own Manner And Character Is What Most Becomes Him.

It Is Pleasant To Recall Past Troubles.

He Who Has A Garden And A Library Wants For Nothing.

Vivere Est Cogitare. (to Think Is To Live)

Hatred Is Inveterate Anger.

Take From A Man His Reputation For Probity, And The More Shrewd And Clever He Is, The More Hated And Mistrusted He Becomes.

Let Your Desires Be Ruled By Reason.

There Is No Moment Without Some Duty.

Great Is The Power Of Habit. It Teaches Us To Bear Fatigue And To Despise Wounds And Pain.

This Is The Truth: As From A Fire Aflame Thousands Of Sparks Come Forth, Even So From The Creator An Infinity Of Beings Have Life And To Him Return Again.

To Be Ignorant Of The Past Is To Be Forever A Child.

Politeness And An Affable Address Are Our Best Introduction.

For How Many Things, Which For Our Own Sake We Should Never Do, Do We Perform For The Sake Of Our Friends.

Hmm... That's Like Telling You About The Cold Of Space, Or Terror Of Midnight. Sithis Is All Those Things. He Is... The Void.

Few Are Those Who Wish To Be Endowed With Virtue Rather Than To Seem So.

A Tear Dries Quickly When It Is Shed For Troubles Of Others.

The Nearer I Approach Death The More I Feel Like One Who Is In Sight Of Land At Last And Is About To Anchor In One's Home Port After A Long Voyage.

Friendship Is Infinitely Better Than Kindness.

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.

Each Part Of Life Has Its Own Pleasures. Each Has Its Own Abundant Harvest, To Be Garnered In Season. We May Grow Old In Body, But We Need Never Grow Old In Mind And Spirit. No One Is As Old As To Think He Or She Cannot Live One More Year.

While The Sick Man Has Life, There Is Hope.

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

Tomorrow Will Give Us Something To Think About

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

I Do Not Now So Much As Wish To Have The Strength Of Youth Again That I Wish'd In Youth For The Strength Of An Ox Or Elephant. For It Is Our Business Only To Make The Best Use We Can Of The Powers Granted Us By Nature.

Politicians Are Not Born; They Are Excreted.

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.

Certain Signs Precede Certain Events.

There Is In Superstition A Senseless Fear Of God.

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.

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The House Should Derive Dignity From The Master, Not The Master From The House.

Wisdom Is Not Only To Be Acquired, But Enjoyed.

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

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

He Who Hangs On The Errors Of The Ignorant Multitude, Must Not Be Counted Among Great Men.

Like Readily Consorts With Like.

There Is Nothing More Shocking Than To See Assertion And Approval Dashing Ahead Of Cognition And Perception.

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

As In The Case Of Wines That Improve With Age, The Oldest Friendships Ought To Be The Most Delightful.

There Is Pleasure In Calm Remembrance Of A Past Sorrow.

The Aim Of Justice Is To Give Everyone His Due.

Life Is Nothing Without Friendship.

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

Let Art, Then, Imitate Nature, Find What She Desires, And Follow As She Directs. For In Invention Nature Is Never Last, Education Never First; Rather The Beginnings Of Things Arise From Natural Talent, And Ends Are Reached By Discipline.

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

Let Every Man Practice The Art That He Knows Best.

As You Have Sown So Shall You Reap.

A S Laws Multiply, Injustice Increases.

The Most Evident Difference Between Man And Animals Is This: The Beast, In As Much As It Is Largely Motivated By The Senses And With Little Perception Of The Past Or Future, Lives Only For The Present. But Man, Because He Is Endowed With Reason By Which He Is Able To Perceive Relationships, Sees The Causes Of Things, Understands The Reciprocal Nature Of Cause And Effect, Makes Analogies, Easily Surveys The Whole Course Of His Life, And Makes The Necessary Preparations For Its Conduct.

It Is Disgraceful When The Passers-by Exclaim, "o Ancient House! Alas, How Unlike Is Thy Present Master To Thy Former One.

Wars, Therefore, Are To Be Undertaken For This End, That We May Live In Peace, Without Being Injured; But When We Obtain The Victory, We Must Preserve Those Enemies Who Behaved Without Cruelty Or Inhumanity During The War.

To Live Long, Live Slowly.

I Criticize By Creation - Not By Finding Fault.

A Careful Physician . . . Before He Attempts To Administer A Remedy To His Patient, Must Investigate Not Only The Malady Of The Man He Wishes To Cure, But Also His Habits When In Health, And His Physical Constitution.

All Pain Is Either Severe Or Slight, If Slight, It Is Easily Endured; If Severe, It Will Without Doubt Be Brief.

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.

The Illustrious And Noble Ought To Place Before Them Certain Rules And Regulations, Not Less For Their Hours Of Leisure And Relaxation Than For Those Of Business.

Rules And Regulations

I Hate All Children Of Precocious Talent.

There Is Nothing Proper About What You Are Doing, Soldier, But Do Try To Kill Me Properly.

The Office Of Liberality Consisteth In Giving With Judgment.

How Do Our Philosophers Act? Do They Not Inscribe Their Signatures To The Very Essays They Write On The Propriety Of Despising Glory.

Let Us Not Listen To Those Who Think We Ought To Be Angry With Our Enemies, And Who Believe This To Be Great And Manly. Nothing Is So Praiseworthy, Nothing So Clearly Shows A Great And Noble Soul, As Clemency And Readiness To Forgive.

War Should Be Undertaken In Such A Way As To Show That Its Only Object Is Peace.

Though Laughter Is Allowable, A Horse-laugh Is Abominable.

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

There Is Nothing So Absurd That Some Philosopher Has Not Already Said It.

The Good Of The People Is The Greatest Law.

Would That I Could Discover Truth As Easily As I Can Uncover Falsehood.

There Is Sufficient Reward In The Mere Consciousness Of A Good Action.

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.

Little By Little Old Age Renders The Body Less Powerful.

There Is Not A Moment Without Some Duty.

Sweet Is The Recollection Of Difficulties Overcome.

Whatever Befalls In Accordance With Nature Should Be Accounted Good.

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

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

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

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

Where Is There Dignity Unless There Is Honesty?

Genius Is Fostered By Industry.

The Hope Of Impunity Is The Greatest Inducement To Do Wrong.

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

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

We Make Allowance For Necessity.

Nothing Is More Disgraceful Than Insincerity.

The Authors Who Affect Contempt For A Name In The World Put Their Names To The Books Which They Invite The World To Read.

Taxes Are The Sinews Of The State.

I Am Not Ashamed To Confess That I Am Ignorant Of What I Do Not Know.

Nothing Is So Secure As That Money Will Not Defeat It.

In The Approach To Virtue There Are Many Steps.

The Best Interpreter Of The Law Is Custom.

I Do Not Wish To Die: But I Care Not If I Were Dead. [lat., Emori Nolo: Sed Me Esse Mortuum Nihil Aestimo.]

Freedom Is Participation In Power.

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

Be A Pattern To Others And Then All Will Go Well.

We Should Not Be So Taken Up In The Search For Truth, As To Neglect The Needful Duties Of Active Life; For It Is Only Action That Gives A True Value And Commendation To Virtue.

What Fervent Love Of Herself Would Virtue Excite If She Could Be Seen!

The Magistrates Are The Ministers For The Laws, The Judges Their Interpreters, The Rest Of Us Are Servants Of The Law, That We All May Be Free.

Leisure With Dignity.

The Rabble Estimate Few Things According To Their Real Value, Most Things According To Their Prejudices.

We Must Be Ever On The Search For Some Persons Whom We Shall Love And Who Will Love Us In Return. If Good Will And Affection Are Taken Away, Every Joy Is Taken From Life.

All Things Are Full Of God.

Fortune Is Not Only Blind Herself, But Blinds The People She Has Embraced.

There Is No Statement So Absurd That No Philosopher Will Make It.

Not To Know What Happened Before One Was Born Is Always To Be A Child.

In The Master There Is A Servant, In The Servant A Master.

We Must Conceive Of This Whole Universe As One Commonwealth Of Which Both Gods And Men Are Members.

All Action Is Of The Mind And The Mirror Of The Mind Is The Face, Its Index The Eyes.

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.]

Of All Nature's Gifts To The Human Race, What Is Sweeter To A Man Than His Children?

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.

Every Man Should Bear His Own Grievances Rather Than Detract From The Comforts Of Another.

In A Promise, What You Thought, And Not What You Said, Is Always To Be Considered.

I Look Upon The Pleasure We Take In A Garden As One Of The Most Innocent Delights In Human Life.

Virtue Is Its Own Reward.

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

No One Dances Sober, Unless He Is Insane.

The Long Time To Come When I Shall Not Exist Has More Effect On Me Than This Short Present Time, Which Nevertheless Seems Endless.

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?]

The Science Of Love Is The Philosophy Of The Heart

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

The Purpose Of Education Is To Free The Student From The Tyranny Of The Present.

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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.

A Community Is Like The Ones Who Govern It.

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.

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.

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

It Is Easy To Distinguish Between The Joking That Reflects Good Breeding And That Which Is Coarse-the One, If Aired At An Apposite Moment Of Mental Relaxation, Is Becoming In The Most Serious Of Men, Whereas The Other Is Unworthy Of Any Free Person, If The Content Is Indecent Or The Expression Obscene.

History Is Truely The Witness Of Times Past, The Light Of Truth, The Life Of Memory, The Teacher Of Life, The Messenger Of Antiquity.

No Sober Person Dances.

For It Is Commonly Said: Accomplished Labours Are Pleasant.

If Our Lives Are Endangered By Plots Or Violence Or Armed Robbers Or Enemies, Any And Every Method Of Protecting Ourselves Is Morally Right.

It Is Not A Virtue, But A Deceptive Copy And Imitation Of Virtue, When We Are Led To The Performance Of Duty By Pleasure As Its Recompense.

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