Quotes by Cicero’s motivation - 1

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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Ability without honor is useless.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Hatred is settled anger.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

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