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Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Fear, Hate, Philosophical

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Philosophical, Men

Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
History, Historical, Goes On

What is permissible is not always honorable.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Honorable

If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Stars, Thinking, Heaven

If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole system of credit and finance which is carried on here at Rome in the Forum, is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province. If Those revenues are destroyed, our whole system of credit will come down with a crash.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Believe, Rome, Investing

Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Long, Shows

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Inspirational, Motivational, History
Epistolae ad atticum Book IX, Section 5

It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Flames, Mind

Friends are proved by adversity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Friends, Adversity

The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Mean, Things In Life, Leisure

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophical, Vehement, Causes

For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Stupidity, Lust, Cowardice
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1853). “The treatises of M.T. Cicero on the nature of the gods [tr. by T.Francklin]; on divination; on fate; on the republic; on the laws; and on standing for the consulship, tr. chiefly by the ed. C.D.Yonge [and F.Barham].”, p.420

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Trust, Trust No One, Salt
"Laelius De Amicitia (Laelius On Friendship)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Sections 19 and 67), 44 BC.

Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Profession, Knows

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Desire, Thirst, Satisfied

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Food, Mind, Body

In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Rights, Names

He has no worse enemy than himself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Enemy
"The Letters of Cicero: The Whole Extant Correspondence in Chronological Order".

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Taken, Men, Suffering
"De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 23., 44 B.C..

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Inspirational, Soul, Divine Inspiration

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Baby, Children, Men
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Clinton Walker Keyes (1993). “Cicero in Twenty-eight Volumes: Pro Archiapoeta. Post reditum in senatu. Post reditum ad quirites. De domo sua.Deharuspicum responsis. Pro Plancio”

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wisdom, Knowledge, Justice

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Death, Memories, Grieving
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Maurice MACKAY (1855). “Select Orations of Marcus T. Cicero: together with the Treatises on Old Age and Friendship. Literally translated by the Rev. Dr. M'Kay ... Second edition”, p.138

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Motivational, Fitness, Health
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1750). “Cato Major: Or, A Treatise on Old Age”, p.81

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