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I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish,

"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Inspirational, Kindness, Believe

In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Procrastination, Hateful, Affair
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1871). “The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.119

Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Success, Science, Perfection

We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Excited, Praise, Glory
"Pro Archia Poeta". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Exordium (Introduction) line 11), 62 BC.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophical, Writing, Ifs
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1962). “Cicero: Letters to Atticus”

In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ignorance, Astonishment, Causes
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Charles Duke Yonge (1853). “The Treatises of M.T. Cicero: On the Nature of the Gods; On Divination; On Fate; On the Republic; On the Laws; and On Standing for the Consulship”, p.220, London : H.G. Bohn

I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

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Peace, War, Unjust

The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Beauty, Nature, World

If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Garden, Grace, Library

Like readily consorts with like.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Mother, Night, Punishment

Hmm... That's like telling you about the cold of space, or terror of midnight. Sithis is all those things. He is... the Void.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Space, Midnight, Void

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Freedom, Men, People

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Pain, Injury, Severe

Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Memories

What is more agreeable than one's home?

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Home

War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
War, Way, Should

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art, Memories, Philosophy

Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

Marcus Tullius Cicero
World, Immortal
"In Catilinam", I, 4, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 321-25,

There were poets before Homer.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Poetry, Poet
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1939). “Brutus, with an English translation”, Loeb Classical Library

If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Law, Doe, May
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Charles Duke Yonge (1853). “The Treatises of M.T. Cicero: On the Nature of the Gods; On Divination; On Fate; On the Republic; On the Laws; and On Standing for the Consulship”, p.417, London : H.G. Bohn

The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Relaxation, Rules And Regulations, Noble

To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Race, Cities

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Culture, Praise, Deserve

It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Strong, Children, Men
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (2010). “Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger”, p.75, Cosimo, Inc.

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