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Letter "M" » Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
«Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
anxieties, brighter, lightened, lightening, lightens, lighten up, prosperity, sharing
«Advice is judged by results, not by intentions»
«When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
brief, brimming, brims, faithfully, instruct, lesson, pours, quickly, retain, take in, unnecessary
«Tomorrow will give us something to think about»
«By doubting we come at truth.»
«We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Freedom,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
Be Free, bondage, in bondage, The Law
«Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
beasts, by nature, ignorant, instructed, instructing, instructs, necessity, Wise Men
«Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Philosophy,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
defined, rightly
«Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Fidelity,
Mind
| Keywords:
endowment, endowments, faithfulness, fidelities, fidelity, human mind, venerable
«The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
cultivation, food, food supply, supplied, supplied with, supply a
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