All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
Marcus T. Cicero
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PETER MCWILLIAMS It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
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The tu...
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JAMES DURBIN Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER Everybody conceded that one event could account or could be sexual harassment if it is severe. The b...
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be tho...
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PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.
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SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
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DAVID NABARRO To stand on the
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DOMINIC BRYANT If that child's behavior is so severe that it warrants a behavior plan, that plan needs to be follow...
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C.S. LEWIS It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER It shouldn't be too severe yet. If we see these dry levels this summer, it could be disastrous.
BARRY KEIM If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.
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CHARLES EMERY I'd imagine if it caused his death, it must have been pretty severe.
GENE PYTKO Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.
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JASON SCHENKER When that light went on, if you didn't notice it, he certainly did. I would be surprised if John is ...
CHUCK COOPER But some love not the method of your first; Romance they count it, throw't away as dust; If I should...
JOHN BUCHAN Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries ...
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SIMONE WEIL If you want to find something with an equation, you must start thinking like a person who have it.
DEYTH BANGER If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared
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JAY MICHAELSON Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
TRYON EDWARDS Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence
TRYON EDWARDS I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO For without transformation
Men become wolves on every slight occasion.
JOHN BYROM It never was our guise
To slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") If you can do it, why you won't do it???
If you have chance why you won't use it?
DEYTH BANGER Who we are is determined by the actions we take, the words we choose to say, the people we love. And...
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ERIC LESSER You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
ALBERTO CAEIRO It shows severe disrespect to us.
JOSEPH WU I have known exceptional people who have endured severe trials while others, at least on the surface...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN I have called this principle, by which, each slight variation, if
useful, is preserved, by the term...
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CHARLES DARWIN The margin of error is so slight.
BEN HOWLAND It was just a slight malfunction of character.
CATH CROWLEY There could be a slight tax increase, but it still funds city services.
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ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
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HAN FEI If we run again this year, it will be in the Breeders' Cup Classic, without a doubt.
GREG NORMAN We don't want to miss anybody or slight anybody.
BOB ANDERSON Away, slight man!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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know.
[Lat., Non me pudet fateri ...
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men is greatly perplexed.
[Lat., I...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Hell is paved with good intentions.
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[Lat., Undique ad inferos tantundem viae...
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[Lat., Homines ad d...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Philosophy is true mother of the arts. (Science)
[Lat., Philosophia vero omnium mater artium.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and
moderation and reason.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In the approach to virtue there are many steps.
[Lat., In virtute sunt multi adscensus.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be
anxious to crush the very flower ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they
possess it.
[Lat., Virtute enim...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Honor is the reward of virtue.
[Lat., Honor est premium virtutis.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering
pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, b...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect
others to be vicious.
[Lat., Nam ut...
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[Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.
[Lat., Meliora sunt ea quae natu...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help
humanity forward, even in the hands ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a
revenue; but to be content with our ow...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The chief recommendation [in a young man] is modesty, then
dutiful conduct toward parents, then aff...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Not only is that an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain
art in teaching it.
[Lat., Nam non...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a
kind manner and gentle speech.
...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought,
therefore, for her own sake.
[Lat., J...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Justice renders to every one his due.
[Lat., Justitia suum cuique distribuit.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
[Lat., Summum jus, summa injuria.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
[Lat., Meminerimus etiam adversu...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.
[Lat., Maxima illecebra est peccandi ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
[Sp., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
[Lat., In animi securitate vitam beatam pon...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten
before the duties of friendship can be ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful
friend;
Gold some decayeth, and wo...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if
we are to be real friends.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) A friend is, as it were, a second self.
[Lat., Amicus est tanquam alter idem.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says,
for you all know the Greek verse,...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.
[Lat., Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabu...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the
same time.
[Lat., Pereant amici, du...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Man is his own worst enemy.
[Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house!
alas, how unlike is thy present m...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to
the second or even the third rank.
...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never
see the fruit.
[Lat., Abores ser...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be
inconstancy.
[Lat., Nemo doctus un...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) At whose sight, like the sun,
All others with diminish'd lustre shone.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.
[Lat., Pares autem vetere proverbio,...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) By some fortuitous concourse of atoms.
[Lat., Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered;
nothing more readily received; noth...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor
temperate, who considers pleasure the hi...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) First things first, second things never.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The beginnings of all things are small.
[Lat., Omnium rerum principia parva sunt.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be
not committed.
[Lat., In ipsa du...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The rabble estimate few things according to their real value,
most things according to their prejud...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) That he was never less at leisure than when at leisure: nor that
he was ever less alone than when a...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does he should do
with all his might.
[Lat., Quod...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to
teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat....
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and
watch you, as they have done already...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should
be made.
[Lat., In omnibus negoti...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) No man was ever great without divine inspiration.
[Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unq...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Precaution is better than cure.
[Lat., Praestat cautela quam medela.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be
shunned.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a
fool.
[Lat., Cujusvis hominis est...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Our country is wherever we are well off.
[Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is
to be regarded as the law of natu...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those
of the body.
[Lat., Morbi perni...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Unraveling the web of Penelope.
[Lat., Penelopae telam retexens.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be
counted among great men.
[Lat.,...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
[Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like).
(Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the
guilt; and also that some men do not s...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him,
so I am no less pleased with an o...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) His deeds do not agree with his words.
[Lat., Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no
fellowship with virtue.
[Lat., Vol...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men
are caught by it as fish by a hook....
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
[Lat., Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation
of age; they adorn prosperity, and ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity
with moderation.
[Lat., Ut adver...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and
arrogance.
[Lat., In rebus prosperi...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much
you value, than to be right in the c...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Let the punishment be equal with the offence.
[Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce"
voting at elections is the best me...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot
pregnant.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Let a man practise the profession he best knows.
[Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerce...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are
united in their objects and wishes.
...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.
[Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober.
[Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobr...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
[Lat., Timor non est diuturnus magister officii.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of
others, and to forget his own.
[La...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from
their own faults.]
[Lat., Ea moles...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Men think they may justly do that for which they have a
precedent.
[Lat., Quod exemplo fit, id et...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong;
then, that the public good be promot...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of
immortality.
[Lat., Nemo unquam ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces
astonishment.
[Lat., Causarum ignorati...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Habit is, as it were, a second nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie,
and are connect as it were by some...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not
to trust himself on the narrow edge...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.
[Lat., Mendaci homini ne verum quidem dicent...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity
by sharing its griefs and anxieti...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) A man of courage is also full of faith.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say
a year hence, but this evening?
...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into
excessive slavery.
[Lat., Nimia liberta...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap.
[Sp., Ut sementem feceris, ita metes.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?
[Lat., O dii immortales! ubinam gentium sumus?]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father.
[Words used by Hector.]
[Lat., La...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) We are all exited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most
influenced by glory.
[Lat., Tra...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
[Lat., Male parta, male dilabuntur.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a
fool.
[Lat., Cujusvis hominis est...
CICERO MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a
valuable and lasting authority.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty
from it.
[Lat., Maximum ornamen...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of
misfortunes.
[Lat., Conscientia rec...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.
[Lat., Levis est consolatio ex miseria al...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old
age.
[Lat., Libidinosa etenim e...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief
could be assuaged by baldness.
[Lat...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent
of all the other virtues.
[Lat.,...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is better to receive than to do an injury.
[Lat., Accipere quam facere injuiam praestat.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not
what you said or thought.
[Lat., ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and
expeller of vices! What could we and eve...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.
[Lat., Bene qui conjiciet, vatem hunc p...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial
disgrace.
[Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) All places are filled with fools.
[Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) A fool must now and then be right by chance.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from
friendship).
[Lat., Assentatio, vit...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.
[Lat., Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark
its intentions.
[Lat., Imago animi...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings,
Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings:
Li...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because
foreseeing his happiness in death, he di...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) He used to raise a storm in a teapot.
[Lat., Excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.
[Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo sp...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Nothing dries sooner than a tear.
[Lat., Nihil enim lacryma citius arescit.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is better to wear out than to rust out.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Never forget that no military leader has ever become great
without audacity.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on
this kind) ever imputed inconsiste...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change
of circumstances and varieties of ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.
[Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evert...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The memory of past troubles is pleasant.
[Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.
[Lat., Nemo unquam sapiens proditori cr...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) To-morrow will give some food for thought.
[Lat., Aliquod crastinus dies ad cogitandum dabit.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it.
Second thoughts are best as the prov...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any
waters.
[Lat., Animi labes nec d...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Were floods of tears to be unloosed
In tribute to my grief,
The doves of Noah ne'er had roost
...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
[Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinqu...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.
[Lat., Pietas fundamentum est omnium...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) I add this also, that natural ability without education has
oftener raised man to glory and virtue,...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside.
[Lat., Nullus est locus domestica sede ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.
[Lat., Improbi hominis est mendacio fallere.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
[Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
[Lat., Nemini fidas, nisi cum quo prius mul...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but
utterly shameless.
[Lat., Negli...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is
hunger; for drink, thirst.
[Lat., Socr...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master
who should be slave.
[Lat., Fit ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.
[Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stu...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries
to corrupt you.
[Lat., Nulla est ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
[Lat., Vita enim mortuorum in memoria ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
[Lat., Memoria est thesaurus omnium rerum e cus...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of
more service than civil war.
[Lat...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) To freemen, threats are impotent.
[Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can
not exist.
[Lat., In animo pertur...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The forehead is the gate of the mind.
[Lat., Frons est animi janua.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the
soul of man.
[Lat., Animi cultus q...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Certain signs precede certain events.
[Lat., Certis rebus certa signa praecurrunt.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself
super-excellent.
[Lat., Adhue neminem cog...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) When they hold their tongues they cry out.
[Lat., Cum tacent clamant.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) What's the good of it? for whose advantage?
[Lat., Cui bono?]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to
men.
[Lat., Homines ad deos null...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is
good and to grieve at the opposite.
...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Every evil in the bud is easily crushed; as it grows older, it
becomes stronger.
[Lat., Omne malu...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Of evils one should choose the least.
[Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an
art.
[Lat., Aegri quia non omne...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) War leads to peace.
[Lat., Cedant arma togae.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body.
[Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores,...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Our country is the common parent of all.
[Lat., Patria est communis omnium parens.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what inter...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO