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Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, World, Action

The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Stars, Moon, Axes

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Reading, Faithful, Letters

On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Religion, Firsts, May

How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Evil, Republic, May

The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Time, Past, Years

No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Stars, Science, Feet

It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
House, Ancestry, Ancient
"De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, CXXXIX, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 23-25, 44 B.C..

The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children, Childhood, Foundation
"Oratio Pro Cnœo Plancio", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 109-113,

The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Swans, Singing, Apollo
"Tusculanarum Disputationum", I. 30, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 772-73,

Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Warrior, Yield, Giving

In the approach to virtue there are many steps.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Steps, Virtue, Approach

The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Success, Men, Virtue

Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Mind, Stones, Superstitions
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, I. 8, p. 770-71, 1922.

In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art, Roots, Tree

Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Truth, Men, Plot
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.1050, Delphi Classics

Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
War, Enemy, Victory
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.21

Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
War, Acquisition, May

The law is silent during war. [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
War, Law, Silent

Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Yield, Togas, Arms
Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero (2006). “De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations”, p.60, ReadHowYouWant.com

To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Impossible, Wonder, Happens

To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children, Forever, Ignorant

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Home, Phases
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3065, Delphi Classics

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Race, Virtue, Guides

...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Karma, Men, Order
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.8510, Delphi Classics

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