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Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Nature

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

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According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

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Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

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

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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Friendship

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

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

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For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

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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.

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

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A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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Never injure a friend, even in jest.

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More Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

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Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

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The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

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In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

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Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

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In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

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I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

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We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

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It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

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To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

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In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

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The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

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Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

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The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

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O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

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It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

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

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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

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Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

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Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

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

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

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

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

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

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The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

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

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He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

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The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

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Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

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Browse 173 quotes attributed to Marcus Tullius Cicero, listed in the source data as a Roman Statesman, organized around themes such as Nature, Friendship, Life. Use the topic links to explore similar quotes, or browse the full author collection in one place.