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He he he... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's... madness.

He he he... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's... madness.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Crazy, Madness

Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Power, Opinion, Authority

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophical, Health, Mind
Tusculanarum Disputationum Bk III

It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Real, World, Sun
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1887). “Ethical Writings of Cicero: Cicero De Officiis, Cicero De Senectute, Cicero De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream”

That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ordinary, Statistics, Belief
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1968). “Cicero”

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Flower, Fall, Roots

Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Horse, Laughter, Laughing

That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Pay, Guilty

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Opinion, Changed

Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Vices, Favors

The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Leader, Principles, Should

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Inspirational, Men, Personal Growth

A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Age, Calm, Aging

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Knowledge, Men, Difficult
"De Oratore (On the Orator)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book III, Chapter 9), 55 BC.

The real friend is another self.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Real, Real Friends, Self

Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Tears
"Ad Herrenium", II, 31, 50, "De Inventione", I. 56, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 780-83,

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Grief, Doe

Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Philosophy, Home

Nature has inclined us to love men.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Brotherhood
"History of European morals from Augustus to Charlemagne". Book by William Edward Hartpole Lesky, 1895.

Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Country, Patriotism, Wells

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children, Memories, Men
"Orator Ad M. Brutum". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BC.

War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Peace, War

The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Death, Lasts, Doe

Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Cities, Looks, Look Up
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1871). “Three Books of Offices ; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.271

In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Fall, May, Limits
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 600-02, De Officiis (44 B.C.), I. 29, 1922.

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