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Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Book, Garden, Library

Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Mean, Skills, Ill Will
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3108, Delphi Classics

In times of war, the law falls silent.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
War, Fall, Law

Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Body, Spirit, Action

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wings, Ease, Flight

What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?

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Journey, May, Absurd
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3016, Delphi Classics

There is no thing which God cannot accomplish.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Accomplish

More law, less justice.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Latin, Law, Justice
Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero (2006). “De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations”, p.26, ReadHowYouWant.com

A letter does not blush.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Doe, Letters, Blushing
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1899). “The Letters of Cicero: B.C. 51-49”, p.23, Charles River Editors

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Natural, States, Humans
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1928). “De Re Publica”

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophical, Men, Debt
Epistulae ad Familiares, II, 6, 2, 43 BC.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Poet, Orators

So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Book, Holiday, Air
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1967). “Cicero”

For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Believe, Order, Opposites

Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Reading, Night, Thinking

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wish, Virtue, Seems
"Laelius On Friendship". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities. 


Marcus Tullius Cicero
Memories, Reality, History

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Love, Friendship, Nature
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1884). “Cicero de Amicitia (on Friendship) and Scipio's Dream”

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Character, Men, Suits

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

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Time, Thinking, Age

Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

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Faith, Men, Together
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “The Orations”, p.138

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Self, Body
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1928). “De Re Publica”

Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.

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Art, Natural Talent, Discipline
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.4704, Delphi Classics

We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Wise, Views

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Becoming, Courtesy
"De Officiis". English Edition,

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