Great Quotes from Great People #60: Marcus Tullius Cicero

truth-revelation (73)in #quotesfromgreats • 8 years ago

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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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truth-revelation (73) 8 years ago

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

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truth-revelation (73) 8 years ago

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.

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truth-revelation (73) 8 years ago

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

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truth-revelation (73) 8 years ago

Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

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truth-revelation (73) 8 years ago

In times of war, the law falls silent.

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truth-revelation (73) 8 years ago

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

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truth-revelation (73) 8 years ago (edited)

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

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truth-revelation (73) 8 years ago

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

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truth-revelation (73) 8 years ago

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?