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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
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 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
A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.
— 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
Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The welfare of the people is the highest law
— 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
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
Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
No one dances sober, unless he is insane.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The more laws, the less justice.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
What times! What manners!
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The beginnings of all things are small.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Never injure a friend, even in jest.
— 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
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Law stands mute in the midst of arms.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friends are proved by adversity.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life is short, but art lives forever.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
To be rather than to seem.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
He is rich who wishes no more than he has.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The forehead is the gate of the mind.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Man is his own worst enemy.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The real friend is another self.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Freedom is participation in power.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Before beginning, prepare carefully.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hatred is a settled anger.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.
— 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
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
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.
— 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
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
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
There were poets before Homer.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.
— 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
No one has leave to sin.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Judge not by the number, but by the weight.
— 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