Continued Insights from Cicero

"The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct"

"The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free"

"What is permissible is not always honorable"

"A man of courage is also full of faith"

"What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us"

"What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?"

"Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?"

"Brevity is a great charm of eloquence"

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

"In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body"

"Hatred is inveterate anger"

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

"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"

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

"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"

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

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

"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"

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

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

"Before beginning, plan carefully"

"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"

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

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

"What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine"

"A home without books is a body without soul"

"A friend is, as it were, a second self"

"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk"

"What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might"

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

"A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others"

"A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him"

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

"What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?"

"Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature"

"Thrift is of great revenue"

"Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either"

"Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat"

"Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just"

"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"

"The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless"

"The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust"

"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"

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