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For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Best Friend, Philosophical, Sake
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1879). “Cicero's 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”

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Lame, Study, Results
Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero (2006). “De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations”, p.120, ReadHowYouWant.com

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophical, Ambition, Opportunity
"De Oratore (On the Orator)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I), 55 BC.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophical, Greatest Love, Mines

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Interpretation, Cases, Doubtful

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophical, Men, Giving

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophical, Impossible, Obligation

Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hands, Religion, Sacred

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophical, Tears, Misfortunes Of Others
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1942). “Cicero: De oratore ...”

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophical, Fluency, Admiration

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Eye, Body, Sentinels

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Freedom, Philosophical, Possession

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Inspirational, Success, Confidence
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1871). “The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.375

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Affection, Divine, Accord
Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Armistead Falconer (1923). “Cicero in twenty-nine volumes”

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Superstitions
"De Natura Deorum", I. 42, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 770-71,

No one has leave to sin.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Sin

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Lying, Liars, Telling The Truth
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Divinatione, II. 71, p. 485-87, 1922.

I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Silent, Prudence, Folly
"De Oratore", III. 35, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 645-47,

Every animal loves itself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Animal, Animal Love
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1872). “The Academic Questions: Treatise De Finibus and Tusculan Disputations of M. R. Cicero, with a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero”, p.252

The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Recollection
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “Select Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.427

The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Giving, Justice, Fairness

All things are full of God.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
God, All Things

The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Sweet, Names
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1871). “The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.66

I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Bulls, Handsome, Kidnapped

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Clever, Men, Reputation
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “De Officiis: (English Edition)”, p.94, LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.

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