Quotes by Cicero’s motivation - 6

Paying tribute to the authors whose words continue to live on

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

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

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

Empire and liberty.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

Like associates with like.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Nature abhors annihilation.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

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