Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Life
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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
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Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.
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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
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A man of courage is also full of faith.
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The spirit is the true self.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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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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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
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While there's life, there's hope.
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The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.
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The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
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Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.
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The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
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No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.
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By doubting we come at truth.
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An unjust peace is better than a just war.
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Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.
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For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.
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Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.
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The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
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For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?
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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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