Cicero quotes - page 3

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us. (Cicero)
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk. View quote
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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. View quote
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Ability without honor is useless. View quote
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. View quote
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No sane man will dance. View quote
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. View quote
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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered. View quote
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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. View quote
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What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might. View quote
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Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good. (Cicero)
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. View quote
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I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. View quote
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The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace. View quote
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When you wish to instruct, be brief that men'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. View quote
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. View quote
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To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches. View quote
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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly. View quote
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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation. View quote
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Law stands mute in the midst of arms. View quote
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A man of courage is also full of faith. (Cicero)
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. View quote
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It is a great thing to know your vices. View quote
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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? View quote
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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. View quote
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