Cicero quotes - page 19

My precept to all who build is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner. (Cicero)
What is more agreeable than ones home. View quote
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The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated. View quote
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. View quote
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The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity. View quote
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Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind. View quote
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The safety of the people is the supreme law. Salus populi suprema lex. View quote
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It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent. View quote
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... for until that God who rules all the region of the sky ... has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.... View quote
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Every evil in the bud is easily crushed As it grows older, it becomes stronger. View quote
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It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post. (Cicero)
There is not a moment without a duty. View quote
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To live long it is necessary to live slowly. View quote
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The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions. View quote
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The peoples good is the highest law. View quote
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Leisure with dignity. View quote
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If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right. View quote
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If you would abolish avarice, you must abolish its mother, luxury. View quote
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It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life. View quote
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Let arms give place to civic robes, laurels to paeans. View quote
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There is something pleasurable in calm remembrance of a past sorrow. (Cicero)
A good orator is pointed and impassioned. View quote
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He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself. View quote
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Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually. View quote
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Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune. View quote
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