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Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

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Men, Way, Goodness

Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

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Habit

Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]

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Honesty, Thyself

Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.

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Punishment, Should

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

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Age, My Own, Short Time

I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

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Sea, Heaven, World

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

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Education, Republic, Youth

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

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Vices, Flattery, Handmaids

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]

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Stones, Folly, Proverbial

It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.

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Friendship, Salt, Common
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Amicitia, XIX, 1922.

It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

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Grief, Hair, Sorrow
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Tusculanarum Disputationum, III. 26, p. 347-49, 1922.

A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

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Hands, Sensual, Age

In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

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Promise, Said, Motive
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “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”, p.24

I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]

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Mind, Tongue

Everyone has his besetting sin.

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Sin

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

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Philosophical, Should, Said
"De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 13, 44 B.C..

Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

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Life, Fixed, Payment
"Tusculanarum Disputationum". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 39), translated, 45 BC.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

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Time, Age, Doe

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

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Change, Delight, Fortune
"Epistles", V. 12, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 93-96,

The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

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Parent, Modesty, Youth

I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]

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Father, Men, Praise
"Tusculan Disputations", IV. 31, 67, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 624-25,

No man in his senses will dance.

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Men, Dancing, Senses

We make allowance for necessity.

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Allowance
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1899). “M. Tullii Ciceronis”

Always the same thing.

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Latin
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1839). “The Tusculan Questions of Marcus Tullius Cicero in Five Books”, p.106

In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.

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Masters, Servant

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