Quotes by Cicero’s motivation - 5

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

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

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

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Hatred is settled anger.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Thrift is of great revenue.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

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

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

A letter does not blush.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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