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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Honesty
"Philippicae (Philippics)". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book II, Chapter 27), 44-43 BC.

I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wish, Remember, Forget

There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Soldier, Trying, Kill Me

Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Enjoyed

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Freedom, Recovery, Splendid
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “Select Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.439

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature, Men, Study

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Age
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1927). “Tusculan Disputations”

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Inspirational, Good Life, War

Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Longing, Trouble, Yearning
Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Armistead Falconer (1923). “Cicero in twenty-nine volumes”

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Talking, Folly, Uneducated

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Book, Giving, House

Everything is alive... Everything is interconnected.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Spiritual, Nature, Alive

Genius is fostered by industry.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Genius, Industry

There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Strong, Castles, Security

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art, Teaching, Knowledge
"De Legibus (On the Laws)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book II, Chapter 19), circa 52 BC.

Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Income, Realizing

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Gratitude, Philosophical, Envy

It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Adversity, Mind, Bears
"De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 26, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 637-38, 44 B.C..

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Time, Nature, Science

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Sorry, Philosophical, Strikes

To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Freedom, Power, Threat

You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friends, Real, Circumstances
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1872). “The Academic Questions: Treatise De Finibus and Tusculan Disputations of M. R. Cicero, with a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero”, p.163

I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Prophet, Prophecy
"De Divinatione". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Book II. 5, 44 B.C..

We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Foolish, Danger, Should
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1902). “De Officiis”

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Inspirational, Life, Faith
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2005). “Tusculan Disputations: On the Nature of Gods, and the Commonwealth”, p.97, Cosimo, Inc.

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