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An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Class, Brain, Want

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Purpose, Students, Purpose Of Education

The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wise, Fool, Protection

He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Errors, Ignorant
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Officiis (44 B.C.), I. 19, p. 647-49, 1922.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Positive, Philosophical, Excess
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1899). “M. Tullii Ciceronis”

There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Rewards, Action, Consciousness

Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Thinking

The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Mind, Body, Disease

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Learning, Mind, Kind

True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Agreement, Law, Trying
"De Re Publica" by Marcus Tullius Cicero, translated by Clinton W. Keyes, Book III, Section (22), 1928.

Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Thinking, Years, Mind
On Old Age VII.24

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Truth, Passion, Science

Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Inspirational, Motivational, Law

It is pleasant to recall past troubles.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Past, Trouble, Pleasant

The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Suicide, World, Divinity
"Tusculan Disputations". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 30, c. 45 BC.

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Agriculture, Tree, Fruit
"Tusculanarum Disputationum". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 14), translated, 45 BC.

To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Victory, Teach, Sweetness

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
War, Order, May
"Cicero's Offices". Book by Cicero, 44 BC.

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Law, Causes, Serious

Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Plato, Men, Sea
"De Senectute", XIII. 44, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 600-02,

History is the teacher of life

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Teacher

He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Judging, Criticism, Wish

If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Stars, Men, Feelings

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophical, Speech, Brevity Of Life

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Evil, Limits

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