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Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

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Exercise, Mind
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.233

Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am the jester. The soul that has served as my constant companion for so long has breached the veil of the Void finally and forever. It is now in me. It is me. The world has seen the last of Cicero the man. Behold Cicero, Fool of Hearts - laughter incarnate!

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Laughter, Heart, Men

No sober person dances.

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Dance, Dancing, Sober

Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]

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War, Form, Endless

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]

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Pain, Men, Thinking
"De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 2, 44 B.C..

I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.

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Laughing, Wonder

The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men

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Respect, Men, Order

Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]

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Nature, Annihilation

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

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Men, Doing Good, Benevolence

Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.

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Insincerity, Disgraceful
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.72

To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

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Mind, Genius, Spirit

There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

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Perception, Cognition, Approval

The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

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Two, Laughing, Religion

Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

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Real, Voice, Benefits
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.204

Unraveling the web of Penelope.

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Work, Unraveling

Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest.

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Rocks, Doctrine, Tempest

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

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Silly, Men, Age

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

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Philosophical, People, Economy

Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

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Discovery, Physicians, Disease
Tusculanarum Disputationum Bk III, Ch. 3

For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.

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Real, Looks, Faces
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1884). “Cicero de Amicitia (on Friendship) and Scipio's Dream”

What times! What manners!

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Society, Manners
"Catilinam" by Cicero,

There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.

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Friends, Perfect, Faithful

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

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Children, Knowledge, Science

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

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Art, Men, Blood

Our thoughts are free.

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Free Thought, Our Thoughts
Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Duncan (1792). “Cicero's Select Orations”, p.491

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