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As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all

As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Powerful, Past, Giving
"De Senectute (On Old Age)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book 5, Section 15), 44 BC.

If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Stress, Giving, Affection
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3056, Delphi Classics

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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
God, Giving, Soul

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Book, Giving, House

To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
True Friend, Giving, Wells

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Offense And Defense, Giving

The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Giving, Office, Judgment

Tomorrow will give us something to think about

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Thinking, Giving, Tomorrow
Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, D. R. Shackleton-Bailey (2004). “Cicero: Letters to Atticus: Volume 6”, p.91, Cambridge University Press

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Giving, Advice, Suggestions

This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Inspirational, Giving, Justice

Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Past, Years, Giving

I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Garden, Giving, Meditation

As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Yield, Giving, Mind

To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship, Irritation, Giving
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (2010). “Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age; Letters of Pliny the Younger”, p.39, Cosimo, Inc.

The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Sleep, Giving, Soul

To-morrow will give some food for thought.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Giving, Tomorrow, Morrow
"Epistulae ad Atticum". XV. 8,

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophical, Men, Giving

The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Giving, Justice, Fairness

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Errors, Giving
Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Armistead Falconer (1923). “Cicero in twenty-nine volumes”

Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Warrior, Yield, Giving

Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Law, Giving, Justice

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