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Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophical, Law, May

Hatred is inveterate anger.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hate, Philosophical, Hatred

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Character, Race, Habit

Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

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Believe, Wish, Virtue

I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Silent, Prudence, Folly

Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home

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Home, Littles, Prudent

To live long it is necessary to live slowly.

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Long

No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Change, Men, Mind
"Epistolæ ad Atticus", XVI. 7. 3, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 93-96,

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Superstitions, Worship, Pious
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Natura Deorum, I. 42, p. 770-71, 1922.

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Punishment, Limits, Retribution

In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Doubt, Imitation, Advantage
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1871). “Cicero on Oratory and Orators: With His Letters to Quintus and Brutus”, p.396, London, George Bell & sons

A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

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War, Safety, Honor
"On the Commonwealth". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 54-51 BC.

It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Honorable, Persons

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Poetry, Excellence, Madness

You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Sky, Might, Sun
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3041, Delphi Classics

Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Fire, Water, Use

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

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Philosophical, Mind, Virtue
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.1671, Delphi Classics

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Law, Letters, Force

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

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Mother, Ifs, Abolish

"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Education, Republic, Youth

To freemen, threats are impotent.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Freedom, Threat, Freeman

I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Garden, Looks, Delight
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.241

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Past, Age, Aging

The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Grieving, Opposites, Addiction

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Time, Age, Youth
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “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.245

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