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THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.
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HUEY NEWTON He's a big guy, he moves well and he understands the game, so he can hurt you.
DONDI MCGOWAN The one who understands does not speak; the one who speaks does not understand
CHINESE PROVERBS It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
JEROME K. JEROME Unless a person understands God’s laws, he will not have long-lasting success.
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JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and hi...
GUY DEBORD Nobody can be successful unless he loves his work.
DAVID SARNOFF No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL No one understands if things take on an anti-American tinge.
CONDOLEEZA RICE TrustE icons, ... are useless. No one understands what they mean.
JAKOB NIELSEN No one can be you unless they're you
BRYNE GONDO He understands what his role is.
JOEL SEGAL Do not speak unless you can improve the silence
PROVERB No one really forgives unless he has been hurt.
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V.E. SCHWAB 'He means well' is useless unless he does well.
PLAUTUS Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one an...
FRANZ SCHUBERT No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one a...
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CAROLYN ROBERTS Never speak loudly to one another unless the house is on fire
H. W. THOMPSON No man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.
EDWARD R. MURROW No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man
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DOUG HORTON No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.
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WINSTON CHURCHILL No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
NAPOLEON HILL No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy / unless you let him.
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CICERO It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
CICERO Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
CICERO Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
CICERO A room without books is like a body without a soul.
CICERO Virtue is its own reward.
CICERO He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
CICERO Man is his own worst enemy.
CICERO Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
CICERO True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can ...
CICERO He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
CICERO Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinio...
CICERO A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
CICERO Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
CICERO Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
CICERO The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.
CICERO Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sac...
CICERO The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.
CICERO There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
CICERO A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
CICERO We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free.
CICERO When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
CICERO Hatred is settled anger.
CICERO There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
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CICERO The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
CICERO Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
CICERO Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
CICERO Endless money forms the sinews of war.
CICERO We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
CICERO The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
(Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex)
CICERO The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.
CICERO The people's good is the highest law.
CICERO Law stands mute in the midst of arms.
CICERO Our thoughts are free.
CICERO Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor ...
CICERO Let your desires be ruled by reason.
(Appetitus Rationi Pareat)
CICERO Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
CICERO The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brute...
CICERO While there's life, there's hope.
CICERO History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory...
CICERO Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
CICERO We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
CICERO Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient.
CICERO The freedom of poetic license.
CICERO There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
CICERO The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference betw...
CICERO Let the punishment match the offense.
CICERO A friend is, as it were, a second self.
CICERO When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson...
CICERO What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.
CICERO We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist a...
CICERO To each his own.
(Suum Cuique)
CICERO To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.
CICERO The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, ...
CICERO Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education wit...
CICERO Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.
CICERO No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
CICERO The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorit...
CICERO The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.
CICERO What a time! What a civilization!
CICERO When you have no basis of argument, abuse the plaintiff.
CICERO By doubting we come at truth.
CICERO To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifeti...
CICERO I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
CICERO It is a true saying that "One falsehood leads easily to another".
CICERO It is a great thing to know our vices.
CICERO In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe ...
CICERO In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for hon...
CICERO If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, plac...
CICERO I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than c...
CICERO He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
CICERO Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
CICERO Force overcome by force.
(Vi Victa Vis)
CICERO By force of arms.
(Vi Et Armis)
CICERO Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form r...
CICERO As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
CICERO Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
CICERO All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.
CICERO Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
CICERO A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultiva...
CICERO A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
CICERO A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
CICERO Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without...
CICERO To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
CICERO Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regula...
CICERO The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
CICERO Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
CICERO The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unche...
CICERO The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.
CICERO Strain every nerve to gain your point.
CICERO Reason should direct and appetite obey.
CICERO Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
CICERO Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of t...
CICERO Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
CICERO Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some o...
CICERO Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
CICERO Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.
CICERO Laws are silent in times of war.
CICERO Superstition is a senseless fear of God.
CICERO Taxes are the sinews of the state.
CICERO There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.
CICERO There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
CICERO We analyzed information gathered from focus groups, ... From the feedback we received, the groups di...
CICERO The First Bond of Society is Marriage.
CICERO No sane man will dance.
CICERO We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.
CICERO They do more harm by their evil example than by their actual sin.
CICERO There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.
CICERO The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
CICERO [One recent survey says,] people are tired of news, ... Our minds possess by nature an insatiable de...
CICERO It is hard for the good to suspect evil as it is hard for the bad to suspect good.
CICERO The great thing is that the economic impact stays here and in the state, ... We think Lafayette's a ...
CICERO Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
CICERO If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
CICERO A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for...
CICERO What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?
CICERO The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the o...
CICERO This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age. Latin: Hoc vinum Falernum annorum q...
CICERO Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
CICERO A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
CICERO It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own, ... Yo...
CICERO The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.
CICERO We're serious. This isn't a joke, ... If an entire town changed its name to DISH, you can't buy that...
CICERO 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...
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