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Nature abhors annihilation.

Nature abhors annihilation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature, Philosophical, Genocide
"De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (On the ends of good and evil)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book V: Liber Quintus, Chapter 11, Section 3), 45 BC.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Philosophical, Cat
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1850). “M. Tullii Ciceronis, De Senectute Et De Amicitiâ”, p.63

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Happiness, Unhappy, States

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Inspirational, Truth, Honesty

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

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Science, Men, Thinking

A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Retirement, Healthy, Wish
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1942). “Cicero: De oratore ...”

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Grief, Adversity

In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.

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Mind, Body, States
"Tusculanarum Disputationum", III. 4, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 513-16,

I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Best Friend, Men

Peace is freedom in tranquility.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Peace, Tranquility

Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

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Liberty, Slavery, Individual

He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

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Ornaments, Modesty, Maximum

I hate all children of precocious talent.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children, Hate, Talent

The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Eye, Body, Sentinels

Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Eye, Mind, Fellowship
"De Senectute", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 600-02,

Hatred is settled anger.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hate, Anger, Hatred

Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Eye, Watches, Done
"Orationes In Catilinam", I, 2, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 771-72,

Pardon is granted to necessity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Granted, Pardon

That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]

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Offering, Rewards, Virtue

Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

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Punishment, Equal, Offence

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Real, Virtue
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (2010). “Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger”, p.42, Cosimo, Inc.

To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Thinking, Arrogant, World

Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.

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Buying, Wealth, Certain
"Paradoxa", 6. 3, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 864-67,

I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Death, Home, Inns

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