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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children, Philosophical, Men

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

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Life, Birthday, Philosophical

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

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Beauty, Animal, Ugly

As I breathe, I hope.

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Hope, Breathe

I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.

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Strength, Elephants, Wish

No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.

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Perfect, Virtue, Courses
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2005). “Tusculan Disputations: On the Nature of Gods, and the Commonwealth”, p.58, Cosimo, Inc.

The wise man never loses his temper.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wise, Men, Temper

Let us not go over the old ground but rather prepare for what is to come.

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So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

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Age, May, Knows

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

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Revenge, War, Defense
"On the Republic. On the Laws".

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

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Best Friend, True Friend, World

Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

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Writing, Law, History

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

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Long, Endless, Nevertheless

Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art, Work, Men

A community is like the ones who govern it.

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Community, Influence

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

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Friendship, True Friend, Real Friends

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children, Infancy Is, History

Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Taken, Names, Consistency
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.273

I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.

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Men, Good Man, Should

There is a difference between justice and consideration in one's relations to one's fellow men. It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow men of considerateness, not to wound their feelings.

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Men, Differences, Justice

The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

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Sweet, Peace, Names

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

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Self Improvement, Public Speaking, Orators

This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

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Birthday, Wine, Years

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

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Thinking, Divinity, Divine

Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art, Medicine, Sick
"De Natura Deorum", II. 4, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 502-04,

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