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Humans Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
- Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
- Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
- Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
- Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.
- Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything…
- I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.
- I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives…
- The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.
- Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
- "I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for…
- It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.
- We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.
- In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.
- They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I…
- We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.
- Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
- To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.
- To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless…
- God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.
- 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…
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