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Marcus Tullius Cicero quotes

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Marcus Tullius Cicero quote: "Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty."
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. Marcus Tullius Cicero
The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero quote: "Life is nothing without friendship."
Life is nothing without friendship. Marcus Tullius Cicero
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names. Marcus Tullius Cicero
My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero quote: "Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom."
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom. Marcus Tullius Cicero
They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero quote: "A happy life consists in tranquility of mind."
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero quote: "The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a..."
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal. Marcus Tullius Cicero
For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and... Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero quote: "Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling..."
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief Marcus Tullius Cicero
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities. Marcus Tullius Cicero

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