Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Giving
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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
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To-morrow will give some food for thought.
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Tomorrow will give us something to think about
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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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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.
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To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.
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Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.
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If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
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The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
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Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.
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Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.
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Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.
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There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.
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Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.
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To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.
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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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As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.
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To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.
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In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
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The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.
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I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.
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The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.
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The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.
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As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.
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For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.
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If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.
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This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.
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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.
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