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The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Love, Life, Family
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1975). “De officiis”, Loeb Classical Library

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Military, Glory
Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero (2006). “De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Philosophical, Men

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Long, Shows

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Inspirational, Life, Memories

By doubting we come at truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Truth, Doubt

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.

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Men, Doe
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1857). “Cicero's Three Books of Offices: Or Moral Duties; Also His Cato Major ... Laelius ... Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Tr., with Notes ...”, p.311

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Happiness, Happy
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.2759, Delphi Classics

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, War, Philosophical

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Time, Age
Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Melmoth (1820). “Essays on old age and friendship”, p.70

While there's life, there's hope.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Hope, Latin
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1880). “The Life and Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero: Being a New Translation of the Letters Included in Mr. Watsons's Selection”

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

The spirit is the true self.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Spiritual, Self
'De Republica' bk. 6, ch. 26

Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Philosophy, Home

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “De Officiis: (English Edition)”, p.149, LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Birthday, Philosophical

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Truth, Taken

Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Fixed, Payment
"Tusculanarum Disputationum". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 39), translated, 45 BC.

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Short Life, Character
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 440-55, Tusculanarum Disputationum, I. 45, 1922.

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Home, Phases
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3065, Delphi Classics

For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life, Change, Time

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