Cicero quotes - page 10

Peace is liberty in tranquillity. (Cicero)
Before beginning, plan carefully. View quote
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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age. View quote
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Thrift is of great revenue. View quote
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Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing. View quote
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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and brings us tidings of antiquity. View quote
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Reason should direct and appetite obey. View quote
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Hatred is settled anger. View quote
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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom. View quote
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The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature. View quote
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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust. (Cicero)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children? View quote
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The best interpreter of the law is custom. View quote
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Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. View quote
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It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much. View quote
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Sweet is the memory of past troubles. View quote
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More law, less justice. View quote
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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine. View quote
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The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. (Cicero)
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. View quote
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The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart mark and avoid him. View quote
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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence. View quote
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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. View quote
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