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But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most for him who loves us most; but we should measure affection, not like youngsters, by the ardour of its passion, but

But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most for him who loves us most; but we should measure affection, not like youngsters, by the ardour of its passion, but rather by its strength and constancy.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Love, Passion, Affection
"De Officiis".

Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Change, Years, Body

My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Business, House, Ornaments

To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hope, Sick, There Is Hope

Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

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Fall, Enemy, Friend Enemy
"Pro Rege Deitaro". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Chapter IX), 45 BC.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Errors, Giving
Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Armistead Falconer (1923). “Cicero in twenty-nine volumes”

Calamus fortior gladio.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Book, Beer, Light
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.1831, Delphi Classics

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Water, Mind, Stains
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1928). “De Re Publica”

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Best Friend, Men
Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Armistead Falconer (1923). “Cicero in twenty-nine volumes”

The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hope, Impunity
"Pro Tito Annio Milone ad iudicem oratio (Pro Milone)". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Section XVI), 52 BC.

Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children, Knowledge, Understanding
"De Oratore (On the Orator)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Chapter XXXIV), 55 BC.

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Short Life, Character
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 440-55, Tusculanarum Disputationum, I. 45, 1922.

Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Country, Parent, Patriotism

Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

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War, Yield, Laurels
'De Officiis' bk. 1, ch. 77

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Strong, Money, Money Talks

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

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Virtue, Imitation, Pleasure

Leisure with dignity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Leisure, Dignity
Pro Sestio ch. 98

For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art, Justice, Grace

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Vices, Flattery, Handmaids
De Amicitia, XXIV,

. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.

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Stars, Journey, Men

For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than #‎ agriculture

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Agriculture, Wells
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.73

Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Death, Regret, Home

There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Death, Roots, Soul
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.254

The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Death, Home, Sight
"On Old Age". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC.

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