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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

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Forgiveness, Believe, Thinking

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

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Men, Liberty, Slavery

Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.

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Wisdom, Passion, Way
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1853). “The Academic Questions, Treatise de Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of Marcus Tullius Cicero: With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero”, p.114

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

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Luxury, Enemy, Folly

Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

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Men, Thinking, Two

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Freedom, Evil, Democracy

No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.

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Lying, Deceit, Courtesy

Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.

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Coats, Shabby

After victory, you have more enemies.

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War, Enemy, Victory

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

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Long, Life Is, Enough

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

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God, Giving, Soul

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

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Evil, Stronger, Bud
Philippicae, V. 11,

I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

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Hunger, Drink, Thirst
"De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum", II. 28, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 381-82,

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

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Truth, Philosophical, Thinking

Friends, though absent, are still present.

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Friendship, Absence, Absent Friends
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.181

If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

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Enemy, Plot, Violence

Let reason govern desire.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
War, Desire, Reason

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

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Inspirational, Friendship, Kindness

Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.

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Self, Requirements, Self Reliant

Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.

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Long, Breathe

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

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Book, Passion, Beer

He who suffers, remembers.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Suffering, Remember

To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

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Errors, Fool, Persevere

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Know How, Wretched

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Motivation, Character, Adversity

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