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If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Respect, Courage, Adversity

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

Friends are proved by adversity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Friends, Adversity

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..

Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Adversity, Demand, Prosperity

Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Home, Adversity

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Grief, Adversity

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friends, Adversity, World
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (2010). “Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger”, p.13, Cosimo, Inc.

These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Adversity, Home, Night
"Oratio Pro Licinio Archia", VII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 757,

These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Country, Adversity, Home

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