"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
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"Dictum sapienti sat est - A word to a wise person is sufficient." ~Cicero Ovid Seneca

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7/19/11

Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes


“A man would have no pleasure in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner with whom he might share his joys.” ~Cicero


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"A room without books is like a body without a soul." ~Cicero

"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues." ~Cicero

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"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error." ~Cicero

"As the old proverb says, "Like readily consorts with like." ~Cicero

"Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature." ~Cicero

"Each part of life has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season." ~Cicero

"Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it." ~Cicero

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others." ~Cicero

"Gratitude is our natural response to God's grace. Nothing so takes the heart out of a person as ingratitude. Gratitude is not only the greatest virtues, but the parent of all the others." ~CICERO

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

"He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect." ~Cicero

"He  who has a garden and a library wants for nothing." ~Marcus Tullius Cicero 

"If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability." ~Marcus Cicero

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." ~Marcus Tullius Cicero

"In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men."  ~Cicero (Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher)

"It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment." ~Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Laws are silent in times of war.” ~Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind."
[Lat., "Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabulum.]” ~Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

“Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship."
[Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]” ~Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

"Let the Welfare of the People be the Highest Law"
(Lat., "Salus Populi Suprema Lex Esto" ~Cicero

"Life is nothing without friendship." ~Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty." ~Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth." ~Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Peace is liberty in tranquility." ~Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.” ~Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
~Marcus Tullius Cicero

"The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk." ~Marcus Tullius Cicero

"The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal." ~Cicero

"The welfare of the people is the ultimate law." ~Marcus Tullius Cicero

"There is no quality I would rather have, or be thought to have, than gratitude. It is not only the greatest virtue; it is the mother of all the rest." ~Cicero

"There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration." ~Marcus T. Cicero

"Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art." ~Cicero

“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.” ~Marcus Tullius Cicero

"To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches." ~Cicero

"To live is to think“ ~Marcus Tullius Cicero

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