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Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as

Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.

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Thinking, Names, Spain
"On the Nature of the Gods". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC.

Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.

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Judging, Gentleman, Desire

Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

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Gains, Morality, Ill

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.

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Soul, Body, Individual

O philosophy, you leader of life.

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Leadership, Philosophy, Leader

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

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Courage, Philosophical, Heart

Religion is the pious worship of God.

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Religion, Worship, Pious

Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

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Art, Nature, Natural Environment
"De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book II, Chapter 34), 45 BC.

But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

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Law, Matter, Opinion
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Tusc. Quæst, I, 13, 30, p. 569-70, 1922.

As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

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Yield, Giving, Mind

Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

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Men, Would Be, Human Nature

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

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Respect, People, Pay

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

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

What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.

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Theft, Possession

Life is nothing without friendship.

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Love, Inspirational, Cute

Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

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Truth, Lying, Honor

Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.

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Life, Home, Adversity

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

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Philosophical, Men, Errors

As you have sown so shall you reap.

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Farming, Results, Reap

No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]

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Inspiration, Greatness, Men

The spirit is the true self.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Spiritual, Self
'De Republica' bk. 6, ch. 26

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

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Men, Members, Commonwealth
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1928). “De Re Publica”

The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

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Journey, Absurd, Increase

There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is unchangeable and eternal. ... It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow. But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding all times and upon all peoples.

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Men, Rome, Law

For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Peace, War, Civil War
"Philippics". 2. 15. 37,

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