Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."
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"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"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
"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"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."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"To some extent I liken slavery to death."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Nature abhors annihilation."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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