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It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.


Marcus Tullius Cicero

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It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.
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That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
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CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we? [Lat., O dii immortales! ubinam gentium sumus?]
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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...
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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 The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO A letter does not blush.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it wi...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and ev...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who ...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, n...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO I am a Roman citizen.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO A room without books is like a body without a soul.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glo...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Ability without honor is useless.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to t...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Thrift is of great revenue.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by ...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO ...for until that God who rules all the region of the sky...has freed you from the fetters of your b...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
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