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Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.

Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
I Can, Falsehood

Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Should
Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Armistead Falconer (1923). “Cicero in twenty-nine volumes”

Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
World, Sun, Robbing

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Football, Inspirational Sports, Determination

As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Religious, Philosopher, Rational

Laws are silent in time of war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
War, Philosophical, Law
Pro Milone ch. 11

The more laws, the less justice.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Peace, War, Law

If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Truth, Self, Would Be

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Moving On, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophical, Oratory, Persuasion

Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Use, Fixing, Granted
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1927). “Tusculan Disputations”

The foundation of justice is good faith.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Justice, Foundation, Good Faith
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Patrick Gerard Walsh (2000). “On Obligations”, p.10, Oxford University Press, USA

Strict law is often great injustice.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Law, Injustice, Strict

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Happiness, Happy
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.2759, Delphi Classics

Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Failing, Disorder

We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Revenge, Kindness, Self

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Loyalty

A wise man does nothing by constraint.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wise, Men, Doe

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Teacher, Fear, Teaching
"Philippicae (Philippics)". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book II, Chapter 36), 44-43 BC.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, War, Philosophical

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Time, Age
Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Melmoth (1820). “Essays on old age and friendship”, p.70

Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Practice, Demon, Habit

Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Beer, Sorrow, Drink

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Eye, Mirrors, Mind

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Deceit, Deceiving
"Pro Murena". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Chapter XXX), November 63 BC.

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