Quotes by Cicero, Marcus T.

"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."

Cicero, Marcus T. on ability
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"Ability without honor is useless."

Cicero, Marcus T. on ability
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"I add this, that rational ability without education has more often raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability"

Cicero, Marcus T. on ability
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"The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish."

Cicero, Marcus T. on age and aging   

"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."

Cicero, Marcus T. on age and aging   

"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end."

Cicero, Marcus T. on age and aging   

"There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer."

Cicero, Marcus T. on age and aging   

"No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year."

Cicero, Marcus T. on age and aging   

"You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long."

Cicero, Marcus T. on age and aging   

"Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth."

Cicero, Marcus T. on age and aging   

"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is."

Cicero, Marcus T. on economy and economics   

"They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper."

Cicero, Marcus T. on eloquence   

"Empire and liberty."

Cicero, Marcus T. on empire   

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

Cicero, Marcus T. on envy
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"The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body."

Cicero, Marcus T. on eyes   

"True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long."

Cicero, Marcus T. on fame   

"Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow."

Cicero, Marcus T. on fame   

"Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty."

Cicero, Marcus T. on fear   

"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind."

Cicero, Marcus T. on fidelity   

"Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat."

Cicero, Marcus T. on food and eating
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"It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own."

Cicero, Marcus T. on fools and foolishness
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"Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered."

Cicero, Marcus T. on freedom   

"Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends."

Cicero, Marcus T. on friends and friendship
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"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk."

Cicero, Marcus T. on friends and friendship
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"A friend is, as it were, a second self."

Cicero, Marcus T. on friends and friendship
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"Life is nothing without friendship."

Cicero, Marcus T. on friends and friendship
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"Friends are proved by adversity."

Cicero, Marcus T. on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed."

Cicero, Marcus T. on friends and friendship   

"Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties."

Cicero, Marcus T. on friends and friendship   

"Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money."

Cicero, Marcus T. on gifts   

"What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?"

Cicero, Marcus T. on gifts   

"When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank."

Cicero, Marcus T. on ambition   

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"The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory."

Cicero, Marcus T. on ambition
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"The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory."

Cicero, Marcus T. on glory
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"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."

Cicero, Marcus T. on gratitude
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"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."

Cicero, Marcus T. on growth   

"Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain."

Cicero, Marcus T. on habit   

"We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind."

Cicero, Marcus T. on happiness   

"Hatred is inveterate anger."

Cicero, Marcus T. on hatred   

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

Cicero, Marcus T. on hatred