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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Positive, Art, Silence

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children, Life And Love, Philosophical
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1962). “Brutus”, Loeb Classical Library

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hype, Obscure, Intention

Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Today, Riches, Moral

Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Tyrants, Law, People

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Love, Life, Family
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1975). “De officiis”, Loeb Classical Library

There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Two, Way, Violence

There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Reading, Heart, Law

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophical, Law, Abuse

If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Thinking, Feelings, Wish

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Thank You, Time, Children

Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Helping Others, Born

If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Respect, Courage, Adversity

The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Memories, Love You, Heart

To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Gratitude, Acceptance, Simplicity
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.2333, Delphi Classics

A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Dog, Stupid, Boys

A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Soul, Ambitious, Body

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Learning, Waiting, Mind

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Military, Glory
Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero (2006). “De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Inspirational, Life, Friendship

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Character, Reflection, Words Of Wisdom
On Old Age VI (transl. W. A. Falconer)

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Education, Teacher, Teaching

A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Joy, Heaven

No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ignorance, Men, Gains

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