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A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Gratitude, Heart, Parent
"Oratio Pro Cnæo Plancio", XXXIII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 336-37,

Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Latin, Fortune

If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

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Errors, Soul, Needs

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Work, Soul, Age
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.239

No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wise, Men, Opinion

The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Moving, Delight, Oratory

Life is short, but art lives forever.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art, Life Is Short, Forever

Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Real, Real Friends, Wages
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1884). “Cicero de Amicitia (on Friendship) and Scipio's Dream”

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophy, Philosophical, Cohabitation

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Science, Philosopher, Absurd

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Change, Reading, Entertainment

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Pleasure, Pleasures Of Life, Satiety
"De Oratore (On the Orator)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book III, Chapter 25), 55 BC.

The works of nature must all be accounted good.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophical, People, Income
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1997). “De oratore: Book III ; De fato ; Paradoxa stoicorum ; De partitione oratoria”

Man is his own worst enemy.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Worst Enemy, Enemy
"Epistulae ad Atticum (Letters to Atticus)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book X, Chapter 12a, Section III), 68-43 BC.

Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children, Mean, Forever

The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Past, Men, Yield

How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Rivals

Generosity should never exceed ability.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Generosity, Should, Ability

Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Addresses, Introduction, Politeness

Certain signs precede certain events.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Events, Certain
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Divinatione, I. 52, p. 304-06, 1922.

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Imagination, Virtue, Difficult

We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Cooking, Mind, Drink

No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Military, Phases, Phases Of Life

The whole of virtue consists in its practice.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Practice, Virtue, Whole

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