Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Feelings
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There is a difference between justice and consideration in one's relations to one's fellow men. It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow men of considerateness, not to wound their feelings.
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All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.
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Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.
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That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but he who has acknowledged a kindness has it still, and he who has a feeling of it has requited it.
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Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.
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If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.
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If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.
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Friends are proved by adversity.
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Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery.
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If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.
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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
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