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No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Thinking, Years, Age
"Of Old Age". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, book 5, section 15, reported in "Cicero on the Art of Growing Old", book by Herbert N. Couch (1959), p. 21,

Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Punishment, Offense

This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Inspirational, Giving, Justice

Justice renders to every one his due.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Justice, Prison, Dues

We all are imbued with the love of praise.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Praise

Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Practice, Names, Jerusalem

The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Real, Prejudice, Real Value
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Oratio Pro Quinto Roscio Comœdo, X. 29, p. 647-49, 1922.

We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Law, May, Lawyer

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Death, Meditation, Philosopher

Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hate, Winning, Reality

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Theatre, Virtue, Conscience

Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Death, Men, Demand
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
History Of Life, Guidance, Passing

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Freedom, Liberty, Libertarian
Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero (2006). “De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations”, p.145, ReadHowYouWant.com

The sinews of war are infinite money.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Peace, Money, War

This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Book, Heart, Men

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Learning, Men, Age

An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Agreement, Conspiracy

Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Indulge In, Anxiety

Strain every nerve to gain your point.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nerves, Gains, Strain

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Inspirational, Divine Inspiration, Portions

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Truth, Lying, Littles
"Oratio Pro Quinto Roscio Comœdo" by Cicero, XX,

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Birthday, Age, Youth

Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Mind, Deceit

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Motivational, Philosophical, Commitment
"De Senectute (On Old Age)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Chapter IX), 44 BC.

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