Continued Insights from Cicero

"This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again"

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

"The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust"

"The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory"

"The good of the people is the greatest law"

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

"The false is nothing but an imitation of the true"

"Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom"

"Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent"

"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age"

"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is"

"Peace is liberty in tranquillity"

"Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live"

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

"Hatred is settled anger"

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need"

"Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion"

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

"We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue"

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

"To live is to think"

"Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered"

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

"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"

"While there's life, there's hope"

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

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

"In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred"

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

"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"

"The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend"

"Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system"

"Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator"

"Brevity is a great charm of eloquence"

"Before beginning, plan carefully"

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

"An unjust peace is better than a just war"

"All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief"

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

"As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved"

"Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error"

"You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself"

"I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity"

"I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors"

"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own"

"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault"

"I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know"

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

"Honor is the reward of virtue"

"He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason"

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