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I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Age, Hunger And Thirst, Proportion

Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Gambling, Play

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Mind, Together, 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.250

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Sweet, Memories, Philosophical

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophical, Honor, Rewards
Marcus Tullius Cicero, George Barnes, Edward Jones (1860). “Cicero on Oratory and Orators”, p.349

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Names, People
"De Senectute (On Old Age)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Chapter 6, Scene 20), 44 BC.

For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Dance, Party, Men

Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Fire, Hands

The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Heart, Land, Soil

The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Virtue, Glory, Whole

To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children, Past, Forever
"Orator Ad M. Brutum" by Cicero, chapter XXXIV, section 120,

Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Gun, Rights, Second Amendment

It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Crush, Flower, Envy

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophical, Conceit, Frivolity

I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Memories, Latin, Everlasting
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1967). “On old age. On friendship”

An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Age, Body, Youth

For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Law, Dumb, Arms
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Pro Milone, IV, p. 430-34, 1922.

Work makes a callus against grief.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Work, Grief, Calluses

No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Stars, Feet, Nemo

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Age, Doe, Youth
Marcus Tullius Cicero, James LOGAN (Chief Justice of the Province of Pennsylvania.) (1750). “Cato Major; Or, a Treatise on Old Age ... With Explanatory Notes from the Roman History. By Mr. Loggan [sic]. To which is Prefixed, the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.42

If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Mother, Luxury, Wish

Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wise, People, Judging

Let the punishment match the offense.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Karma, Forgiveness, Punishment
De Legibus bk. 3, ch. 20

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Guilt, Deeds, Committed
"De Officiis (On Duties)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book III, Chapter 8), 44 BC.

There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Stupid, Stupidity, Opinion

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