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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Food, Science, Men
"De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (On the ends of good and evil)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book V: Liber Quintus, Chapter 19), 45 BC.

Let each man have according to his deserts.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Desert

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hands, Age, Body
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (2010). “Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age; Letters of Pliny the Younger”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Ignorant, Doe
"De Divinatione", II. 22, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 259-60,

Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Summer, Lasts, Succeed

Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Law, Opinion, Ends

Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Grief, Tears, Olives

The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Home, Empires, Fireplaces

The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Character, Men, Fit
Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero (2006). “De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations”, p.88, ReadHowYouWant.com

By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Plato, Men, Errors
"Tusculanarum Disputationum", I, 17, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 236-37,

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Memories, Standing Out, Fixed
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1967). “Cicero”

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Truth, Taken

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Evil, Passing Away, Making A Difference

It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Remember, Difficult

A true friend is a sort of second self.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friends, True Friend, Self

He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Humble, Men, Delicacy
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Oratore, XXIX, p. 219-20, 1922.

Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Thinking, Example
"Epistles", IV. 3, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 242-43,

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Death, Men, Glory
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.2321, Delphi Classics

Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Drinking, Men, Sober

Do nothing twice over.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Thinking, He Man

Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Water, Wickedness, Stains

Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Life Is, Fortune

An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Innocent Man, Guilt

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Money, Philosophical, Taken

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