Cicero
Found 24 thoughts of Cicero
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.
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Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.
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Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient.
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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
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He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
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Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.
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It is a true saying that "One falsehood leads easily to another".
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The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.
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I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.
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A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
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In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
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The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
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The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.
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There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
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As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
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There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.
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Reason should direct and appetite obey.
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What a time! What a civilization!
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Anyone who has got a book collection and a garden wants for nothing.
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