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If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Stress, Giving, Affection
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3056, Delphi Classics

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophical, Planning, Careful

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophical, Commitment, Positive Attitude
"The Art of Money-Getting". Book by P. T. Barnum, 1880.

As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Grace, Mind

Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hurt, Enemy

Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Strength, Running, Business
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Clinton Walker Keyes (1992). “Cicero in Twenty-eight Volumes: Cato Maior de Senectute. Laelius de Amicitia. De Divinatione”

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophical, Wish

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Sympathy, Mean

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Justice, Political, Prison
"De Officiis (On Duties)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 10), 44 BC.

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hate, Reality, Men
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Edward William Sutton, Harris Rackham (1942). “Cicero, De Oratore: In Two Volumes”

We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Communication, Our Words, Our Actions

To live long, live slowly.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Long, Medical

Studies are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; they are companions by night, and in travel, and in the country.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Country, Book, Home
"The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero".

Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Sound, Public Opinion, Influence

Virtue is its own reward.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Inspirational, Inspiring, Inspire
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1812). “Cicero's five books De finibus: or, Concerning the last object of desire and aversion”, p.97

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Education, Teacher, Ignorance
"Tusculan Disputations". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Book I. 25. 60, c. 45 BC.

No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Insane, Sober
"Pro Murena". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 1st century BC.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Peace, War, Humanity
"Letters to Atticus" (1st century B.C.), as quoted in "Words on war: military quotations from ancient times to the present", book by Jay M. Shafritz, 1990.

We are not born for ourselves alone.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Responsibility, Born
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “The Orations”, p.18

They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Heart, Hair, Race

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Guilt, Shame, Incitement

Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Money, Defeat, Secure

There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wise, Wisdom, Philosophical
"The Letters of Cicero: The Whole Extant Correspondence in Chronological Order".

We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Race, Community

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Funny, Philosophical, Philosopher

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