He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
CICERO He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO He does not live in vain; who employs his wealth, his thought, and his speech to advance the good of...
HINDU PROVERB He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any...
JOHN STUART MILL There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his powe...
JIM BUTCHER Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would....
WILLIAM GODWIN He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any...
JOHN STUART MILL The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is diffi...
STACY SCHIFF Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason
ENGLISH PROVERB He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certa...
JEREMY TAYLOR Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS Marcus has never beaten his brother before. He beat him today.
MATT PAXTON Three independent bystanders said Marcus never had a gun in his hand. Marcus admits that those three...
LAWRENCE WOODWARD We made the move knowing Marcus is an explosive player. We feel like if he gets enough touches, that...
GERALD BROWN The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his ...
G. K. CHESTERTON Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas...
LIN YUTANG It was his passion. He truly wanted to make it a better place.
JOHN SULLIVAN Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no m...
AYN RAND The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capi...
LELAND STANFORD If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
SOCRATES If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
SOCRATES Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
WILLIAM PENN Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason
WILLIAM PENN ...he spent whole days and nights over his books; and thus with little sleeping and much reading his...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
SOCRATES The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will ...
E. M. FORSTER It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he...
LEO TOLSTOY He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that
his reason is weak.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE If he makes all his starts, with his stuff, there's no reason why he can't win upwards of 15-to-20 g...
BUD BLACK Marcus turned his back to her. He feared that if he saw her face, it might weaken his resolve. Love ...
JENNIFER MCKEITHEN Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was ...
LISA KLEYPAS Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, onl...
MAHATMA GANDHI The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it
FRANCOIS FENELON I think the employer should be much freer to make decisions on who she or he employs.
NIGEL FARAGE Roger Kahn is someone with a gazillion dollars who thinks that he can use his vast fortune to buy te...
PHIL GINGREY Marcus struggles against the swinging ball because he doesn't move his feet. But Marcus is unorthodo...
MARK TAYLOR Every man, at the bottom of his heart, wants to do right. But only he can do right who knows right; ...
TIORIO He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.
RICHARD WHATLEY Imagination cannot make fools wise; but she can make them happy, to the envy of reason, who can only...
BLAISE PASCAL He is a guy who is only going to accept winning. I like his attitude and his style of coaching and h...
BRYAN MURRAY So he sighed and pined and ogled,And his passion boiled and bubbled,Till he blew his silly brains ou...
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY His passion was music. He was a rapper. That was his talent.
CARRIE SMITH A successful teacher is one who has atleast 2 students in his class, one who sees no reason to study...
APURVA GAGLANI The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will no...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON No matter how far he can go in his entire life.
No matter how much he can achieve in his entire life...
KAZERONNIE MAK There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or h...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN He who thinks by not talking to his wife or girlfriend can make her realize and apologize for her mi...
ANUJ SOMANY No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he sho...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If there is no love, how can there be passion or reason?
DEBASISH MRIDHA Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE He was very upset. He voiced his opinion and that is just the way it goes. He has passion for the ga...
CHANNING FRYE Xherdan Shaqiri is a player who can make the difference because he can decide games on his own.
OTTMAR HITZFELD Marcus Samuelsson is a chef who inspires me everyday. He has such a deep understanding of flavors an...
AARON SANCHEZ By the time you swear you are his, shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is infinite and un...
DOROTHY PARKER After all, only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master o...
LIN YUTANG Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when ...
ERICH FROMM He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who c...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn...
OSCAR WILDE There is only one Lord of the Ring, only one who can bend it to his will. And he does not share powe...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU Marcus is such a good player and he contributes a lot. He's had the attitude in practice that he's g...
ED NELSON It is not permitted to a man who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his onl...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Mock and ridicule men who refuse to use reason and logic; use reason and logic against men who know ...
CRISS JAMI Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less; but that he who loves can onl...
MAX MULLER His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only ...
NEIL GAIMAN He who wants to make his friend his enemy should lend him some money.
VIKRANT PARSAI He who wants to safeguard His liberty, needs not only to shield His own, but He must shield His enem...
ANTHONY I. LANE Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For t...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength
and soul can be a true master. For...
UNKNOWN It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. B...
GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL No one knows what god thinks of anything. He only knows and no one can claim to penetrate into his m...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
...
DOROTHY PARKER No one can keep his grieves in their prime; they use themselves up.
E. M. CIORAN A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many thin...
COLTON Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply can...
CONFUCIUS Marcus is just like his dad. He's a carbon copy.
DON BRANKLEY A man's thoughts dye his soul, attributed to Marcus Aurelius
ELISABETH ELLIOT Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make ...
IMMANUEL KANT No question that when Louis makes his free throws, it helps everything. He's going up to the line be...
LON KRUGER It is no use of discussing how long a snake is when he is in his house.
VIKRANT PARSAI Be a wife of whom he can make no complaint, Margaret. That is the best advice I can give to you. You...
PHILIPPA GREGORY His only fault is that he has no fault.
PLINY THE YOUNGER Tell me everything about this woman you once knew. Tell me everything she ever told you about Jesus ...
FRANCINE RIVERS Nothing is less sincere than our mode of asking and giving advice. He who asks seems to have a defer...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY He is the foremost reason I wanted to make the movie. I'd never been right for one of his movies.
JODIE FOSTER By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infi...
DOROTHY PARKER Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad Habits. Who is rich? He that rejoices in his Portion.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I wouldn't be at all surprised to see radio and outdoor come up for sale, and Mel using some of his ...
DENNIS MCALPINE He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance.
JOSEPH MUCHEMI The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passi...
ADOLF HITLER
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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not
know.
[Lat., Non me pudet fateri ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of
men is greatly perplexed.
[Lat., I...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Hell is paved with good intentions.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.
[Lat., Undique ad inferos tantundem viae...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving
health to men.
[Lat., Homines ad d...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Philosophy is true mother of the arts. (Science)
[Lat., Philosophia vero omnium mater artium.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and
moderation and reason.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In the approach to virtue there are many steps.
[Lat., In virtute sunt multi adscensus.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be
anxious to crush the very flower ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they
possess it.
[Lat., Virtute enim...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Honor is the reward of virtue.
[Lat., Honor est premium virtutis.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering
pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, b...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect
others to be vicious.
[Lat., Nam ut...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) There are no true friends in politics.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Nature abhors annihilation.
[Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.
[Lat., Meliora sunt ea quae natu...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help
humanity forward, even in the hands ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a
revenue; but to be content with our ow...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The chief recommendation [in a young man] is modesty, then
dutiful conduct toward parents, then aff...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Not only is that an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain
art in teaching it.
[Lat., Nam non...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a
kind manner and gentle speech.
...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought,
therefore, for her own sake.
[Lat., J...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Justice renders to every one his due.
[Lat., Justitia suum cuique distribuit.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
[Lat., Summum jus, summa injuria.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
[Lat., Meminerimus etiam adversu...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.
[Lat., Maxima illecebra est peccandi ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
[Sp., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
[Lat., In animi securitate vitam beatam pon...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten
before the duties of friendship can be ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful
friend;
Gold some decayeth, and wo...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if
we are to be real friends.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) A friend is, as it were, a second self.
[Lat., Amicus est tanquam alter idem.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says,
for you all know the Greek verse,...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.
[Lat., Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabu...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the
same time.
[Lat., Pereant amici, du...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Man is his own worst enemy.
[Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house!
alas, how unlike is thy present m...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to
the second or even the third rank.
...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never
see the fruit.
[Lat., Abores ser...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be
inconstancy.
[Lat., Nemo doctus un...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) At whose sight, like the sun,
All others with diminish'd lustre shone.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.
[Lat., Pares autem vetere proverbio,...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) By some fortuitous concourse of atoms.
[Lat., Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered;
nothing more readily received; noth...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor
temperate, who considers pleasure the hi...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) First things first, second things never.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The beginnings of all things are small.
[Lat., Omnium rerum principia parva sunt.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be
not committed.
[Lat., In ipsa du...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The rabble estimate few things according to their real value,
most things according to their prejud...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) That he was never less at leisure than when at leisure: nor that
he was ever less alone than when a...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does he should do
with all his might.
[Lat., Quod...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to
teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat....
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and
watch you, as they have done already...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should
be made.
[Lat., In omnibus negoti...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) No man was ever great without divine inspiration.
[Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unq...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Precaution is better than cure.
[Lat., Praestat cautela quam medela.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be
shunned.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a
fool.
[Lat., Cujusvis hominis est...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Our country is wherever we are well off.
[Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is
to be regarded as the law of natu...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those
of the body.
[Lat., Morbi perni...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Unraveling the web of Penelope.
[Lat., Penelopae telam retexens.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be
counted among great men.
[Lat.,...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
[Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like).
(Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the
guilt; and also that some men do not s...
CICERO (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 o...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) His deeds do not agree with his words.
[Lat., Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no
fellowship with virtue.
[Lat., Vol...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men
are caught by it as fish by a hook....
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
[Lat., Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation
of age; they adorn prosperity, and ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity
with moderation.
[Lat., Ut adver...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and
arrogance.
[Lat., In rebus prosperi...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much
you value, than to be right in the c...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Let the punishment be equal with the offence.
[Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce"
voting at elections is the best me...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot
pregnant.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Let a man practise the profession he best knows.
[Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerce...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are
united in their objects and wishes.
...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.
[Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober.
[Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobr...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
[Lat., Timor non est diuturnus magister officii.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of
others, and to forget his own.
[La...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from
their own faults.]
[Lat., Ea moles...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Men think they may justly do that for which they have a
precedent.
[Lat., Quod exemplo fit, id et...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong;
then, that the public good be promot...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of
immortality.
[Lat., Nemo unquam ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces
astonishment.
[Lat., Causarum ignorati...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Habit is, as it were, a second nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie,
and are connect as it were by some...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not
to trust himself on the narrow edge...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.
[Lat., Mendaci homini ne verum quidem dicent...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity
by sharing its griefs and anxieti...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) A man of courage is also full of faith.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say
a year hence, but this evening?
...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into
excessive slavery.
[Lat., Nimia liberta...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap.
[Sp., Ut sementem feceris, ita metes.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?
[Lat., O dii immortales! ubinam gentium sumus?]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father.
[Words used by Hector.]
[Lat., La...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) We are all exited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most
influenced by glory.
[Lat., Tra...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
[Lat., Male parta, male dilabuntur.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a
fool.
[Lat., Cujusvis hominis est...
CICERO MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a
valuable and lasting authority.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty
from it.
[Lat., Maximum ornamen...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of
misfortunes.
[Lat., Conscientia rec...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.
[Lat., Levis est consolatio ex miseria al...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old
age.
[Lat., Libidinosa etenim e...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief
could be assuaged by baldness.
[Lat...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent
of all the other virtues.
[Lat.,...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is better to receive than to do an injury.
[Lat., Accipere quam facere injuiam praestat.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not
what you said or thought.
[Lat., ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and
expeller of vices! What could we and eve...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.
[Lat., Bene qui conjiciet, vatem hunc p...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial
disgrace.
[Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) All places are filled with fools.
[Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) A fool must now and then be right by chance.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from
friendship).
[Lat., Assentatio, vit...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.
[Lat., Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark
its intentions.
[Lat., Imago animi...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings,
Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings:
Li...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because
foreseeing his happiness in death, he di...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) He used to raise a storm in a teapot.
[Lat., Excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.
[Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo sp...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Nothing dries sooner than a tear.
[Lat., Nihil enim lacryma citius arescit.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is better to wear out than to rust out.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Never forget that no military leader has ever become great
without audacity.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on
this kind) ever imputed inconsiste...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change
of circumstances and varieties of ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.
[Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evert...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The memory of past troubles is pleasant.
[Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.
[Lat., Nemo unquam sapiens proditori cr...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) To-morrow will give some food for thought.
[Lat., Aliquod crastinus dies ad cogitandum dabit.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it.
Second thoughts are best as the prov...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any
waters.
[Lat., Animi labes nec d...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Were floods of tears to be unloosed
In tribute to my grief,
The doves of Noah ne'er had roost
...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
[Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinqu...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.
[Lat., Pietas fundamentum est omnium...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) I add this also, that natural ability without education has
oftener raised man to glory and virtue,...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside.
[Lat., Nullus est locus domestica sede ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.
[Lat., Improbi hominis est mendacio fallere.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
[Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
[Lat., Nemini fidas, nisi cum quo prius mul...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but
utterly shameless.
[Lat., Negli...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is
hunger; for drink, thirst.
[Lat., Socr...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master
who should be slave.
[Lat., Fit ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.
[Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stu...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries
to corrupt you.
[Lat., Nulla est ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
[Lat., Vita enim mortuorum in memoria ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
[Lat., Memoria est thesaurus omnium rerum e cus...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of
more service than civil war.
[Lat...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) To freemen, threats are impotent.
[Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can
not exist.
[Lat., In animo pertur...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The forehead is the gate of the mind.
[Lat., Frons est animi janua.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the
soul of man.
[Lat., Animi cultus q...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Certain signs precede certain events.
[Lat., Certis rebus certa signa praecurrunt.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself
super-excellent.
[Lat., Adhue neminem cog...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) When they hold their tongues they cry out.
[Lat., Cum tacent clamant.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) What's the good of it? for whose advantage?
[Lat., Cui bono?]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to
men.
[Lat., Homines ad deos null...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is
good and to grieve at the opposite.
...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Every evil in the bud is easily crushed; as it grows older, it
becomes stronger.
[Lat., Omne malu...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Of evils one should choose the least.
[Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an
art.
[Lat., Aegri quia non omne...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) War leads to peace.
[Lat., Cedant arma togae.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body.
[Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores,...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Our country is the common parent of all.
[Lat., Patria est communis omnium parens.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what inter...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO A letter does not blush.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it wi...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and ev...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who ...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, n...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO I am a Roman citizen.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO A room without books is like a body without a soul.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glo...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Ability without honor is useless.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to t...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Thrift is of great revenue.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by ...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO ...for until that God who rules all the region of the sky...has freed you from the fetters of your b...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO