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In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.
— Thomas Browne
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.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Dogs wait for us faithfully.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
He he he ... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's ... madness ...
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
If the Aeneid is language as metaphor, as the sacramental ritualizing of human experience, Cicero's speeches are language as practical tool.
— Thomas Cahill
As I continued through Cicero's pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life ...
— Charlie Munger
I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
What is more agreeable than one's home?
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
No one has leave to sin.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Work makes a callus against grief.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
To-morrow will give some food for thought.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Let - not - your - heart - be - troubled. In - my - Father's - house - are - many - mansions. I - go - to - prepare - a - place - for - you." Cicero,
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
He talks like he's living in Plato's Republic, not Romulus's shit-hole.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
For he (Cato) gives his opinion as if he were in Plato's Republic, not in Romulus' cesspool.
— Marcus Tullius 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.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hmm ... That's like telling you about the cold of space, or terror of midnight. Sithis is all those things. He is ... the Void.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Every man's friend is no man's friend.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Man's best support is a very dear friend.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Cicero's words also increased my personal satisfaction by supporting my long-standing rejection of a conventional point of view.
— Charlie Munger
It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
(I)t was by Cicero's attainments that that he'd gained special witness to the liberals' adjustment to a brush with actual equality.
— Jonathan Lethem
Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word ...
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods.[Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The wise man never loses his temper.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
While there's life, there's hope.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Lucretius and Cicero testify to the view that people dream about the things that concern them in waking life.
— Sigmund Freud
The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
N the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self ...
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Judge not by the number, but by the weight.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
There were poets before Homer.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Before beginning, prepare carefully.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing cruel is in fact beneficial; for cruelty is extremely hostile to the nature of man, which we ought to follow.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Before beginning, plan carefully.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The human mind ever longs for occupation.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is no thing which God cannot accomplish.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Do nothing twice over.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is no life without friendship
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
To live long it is necessary to live slowly.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero