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Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a
revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most
certain wealth of all.
[Lat., Non esse cupidum, pecunia est; non esse emacem, vectigal
est; contentum vero suis rebus esse, maximae sunt, certissimaeque
divitiae.]
Wealth
Quotes, by Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) , Source: Paradoxa (6, 3)
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I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help
humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker.
The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that
can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to
selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine M
anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Gandhi armed with the money-bags
of Carnegie?
Wealth
Quotes, by Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) , Source: Paradoxa (6, 3)
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In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and
arrogance.
[Lat., In rebus prosperis, superbiam, fastidium arrogantiamque
magno opere fugiamus.]
Prosperity
Quotes, by Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) , Source: De Officiis (I, 26)
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Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into
excessive slavery.
[Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem
cadit.]
Slavery
Quotes, by Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) , Source: De Republica (I, 44)
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He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master
who should be slave.
[Lat., Fit in dominatu servitus, in servitute dominatus.]
Slavery
Quotes, by Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) , Source: Oratio Pro Rege Deiotaro (XI)
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From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.
[Lat., Undique ad inferos tantundem viae est.]
Hell
Quotes, by Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) , Source: Tusc. Quoest. (bk. I, 43, 104), quoted as a saying of Anaxagoras
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It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief
could be assuaged by baldness.
[Lat., Stultum est in luctu capillum sibi evellere, quasi calvito
maeror levaretur.]
Hair
Quotes, by Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) , Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (III, 26)
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There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful
friend;
Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in
the winde;
But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale
and woe;
The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the
same overthrowe.
- edited by John Payne Collier,
Friends
Quotes, by Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) , Source: De Finibus, (Yonge's translation)
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It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house!
alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one."
[Lat., Odiosum est enim, cum a praetereuntibus dicatur:--O domus
antiqua, heu, quam dispari dominare domino.]
Ancestry
Quotes, by Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) , Source: De Officiis (CXXXIX)
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It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a
kind manner and gentle speech.
[Lat., Sed tamen difficile dictu est, quantopere conciliat animos
hominum comitas affabilitasque sermonis.]
Kindness
Quotes, by Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) , Source: De Officiis (II, 14)
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I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is
hunger; for drink, thirst.
[Lat., Socratem audio dicentem, cibi condimentum essa famem,
potionis sitim.]
Hunger
Quotes, by Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) , Source: De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (II, 28)
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to
the second or even the third rank.
[Lat., Prima enim sequentem, honestumn est in secundis,
tertiisque consistere.]
Ambition
Quotes, by Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) , Source: De Oratore (I)
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In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not
devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into
immorality.
[Lat., Ludendi etiam est quidam modus retinendus, ut ne nimis
omnia profundamus, elatique voluptate in aliquam turpitudinem
delabamur.]
Pleasure
Quotes, by Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) , Source: De Officiis (I, 29)
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