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I am never less alone than when alone.

I am never less alone than when alone.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Loneliness, Solitude
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1899). “M. Tullii Ciceronis”

There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Knowledge, Mean, Sea

Probability is the very guide of life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Investing, Statistics, Guides
"De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC.

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Character, Men, Courtesy

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Eating

In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Pride, Arrogance, Prosperity
"De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 B.C..

Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Causes, Moments, Diligence
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.1770, Delphi Classics

Let your desires be ruled by reason.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Desire, Reason

This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Grieving, Opposites, Mind
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Amicitia, XIII, p. 326-29, 1922.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Eye, Soul, Portraits
"On the Orator". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, III. 59, 55 BCE.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Motivational, Friendship, Truth

In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Preparation, Matter, Made
"De Officiis (On Duties)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 21), 44 BC.

Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Mean, People, Community

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Laughter, Heart

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Arrogant, World
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.50

Ability without honor is useless.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Army, Honor, Useless

To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
True Friend, Giving, Wells

Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
People, Blind, Fortune

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Men, Doe
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1857). “Cicero's Three Books of Offices: Or Moral Duties; Also His Cato Major ... Laelius ... Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Tr., with Notes ...”, p.311

Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Grief, Sorrow, Opinion
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1886). “Tusculan Disputations ...”

A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Bed, Bachelors, Pleasant

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophical, Charm, Brevity

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Peace, War, Believe

There is nothing which God cannot do. [Lat., Nihil est quod deus efficere non possit.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
God

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophical, Blessing, Growth
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “Cicero's Three books of Offices: or, Moral duties. Also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Laelius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.249

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