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Thinking Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
- Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly.…
- The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.
- There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.
- This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.
- No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.
- Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)
- Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit…
- Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.
- Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body,…
- If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.
- No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.
- Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.
- I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.
- Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening…
- To live is to think.
- For the mere act of thinking a course expedient, when it is morally wrong, is demoralizing.
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