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Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 13

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

"Tusculanarum Disputationum", LIX, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 289-93,

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Niall Rudd (2008). “The Republic and The Laws”, p.152, Oxford University Press

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (1755). “M.T. Cicero, His Offices: Or, His Treatise Concerning the Moral Duties of Mankind; His Cato Major, Concerning the Means of Making Old Age Happy; His Laelius, Concerning Friendship; His Moral Paradoxes; The Vision of Scipio, Concerning a Future State; His Letter Concerning the Duties of a Magistrate. With Notes Historical and Explanatory”, p.53

The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.

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.3

The beginnings of all things are small.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (1872). “The Academic Questions: Treatise De Finibus and Tusculan Disputations of M. R. Cicero, with a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero”, p.267

No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

"Epistulae ad Atticum (Letters to Atticus)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book XVI, Chapter 7), 68-43 BC.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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

Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3082, Delphi Classics