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In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can
not exist.
[Lat., In animo perturbato, sicut in corpore, sanitas esse non
potest.]
Topic: Mind
Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (III, 4)
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The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.
[Lat., Levis est consolatio ex miseria aliorum.]
Topic: Misery
Source: Epistles (VI, 3)
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The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of
misfortunes.
[Lat., Conscientia rectae voluntatis maxima consolatio est rerum
incommodarum.]
Topic: Misfortune
Source: Epistles (V, 4)
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He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty
from it.
[Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit
verecudiam.]
Topic: Modesty
Source: De Amicitia (XX)
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Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a
valuable and lasting authority.
Topic: Modesty
Source: Rhetorical Invention (bk. II, sec. LVI)
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Nature abhors annihilation.
[Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]
Topic: Nature
Source: De Finibus (V, 11, 3)
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Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.
[Lat., Meliora sunt ea quae natura quam illa quae arte perfecta
sunt.]
Topic: Nature
Source: De Natura Deorum (II, 34)
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Let a man practise the profession he best knows.
[Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]
Topic: Occupations
Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 18)
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It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot
pregnant.
Topic: Occupations
Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 18)
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But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is
to be regarded as the law of nature.
[Lat., Omni autem in re consensio omnium gentium lex naturae
putanda est.]
Topic: Opinion
Source: Tusc. Quoest. (I, 13, 30)
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Our country is the common parent of all.
[Lat., Patria est communis omnium parens.]
Topic: Patriotism
Source: Orationes in Catilinam (I, 7)
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Our country is wherever we are well off.
[Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]
Topic: Patriotism
Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (V, 37), quoting Pacuvius
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War leads to peace.
[Lat., Cedant arma togae.]
Topic: Peace
Source: De Officiis (I, 22)
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For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of
more service than civil war.
[Lat., Mihi enim omnis pax cum civibus bello civili utilior
videbatur.]
Topic: Peace
Source: Philippicoe (2, 15, 37)
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O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and
expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been
without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men
scattered about into the social enjoyment of life.
[Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix,
expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita
hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu
dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]
Topic: Philosophy
Source: Tusc. Quoest. (bk. V, 2, 5)
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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.]
Topic: Pleasure
Source: De Officiis (I, 29)
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In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
[Lat., Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus maximis fastidium finitimum
est.]
Topic: Pleasure
Source: De Oratore (III, 25)
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Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no
fellowship with virtue.
[Lat., Voluptas mentis (ut ita dicam) praestringit oculos, nec
habet ullum cum virtute commercium.]
Topic: Pleasure
Source: De Senectute (XII)
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Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men
are caught by it as fish by a hook.
[Lat., Divine Plato escam malorum appeliat voluptatem, quod ea
videlicet homines capiantur, ut pisces hamo.]
Topic: Pleasure
Source: De Senectute (XIII, 44)
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I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself
super-excellent.
[Lat., Adhue neminem cognovi poetam, qui sibi non optimus
videretur.]
Topic: Poets
Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (V, 22)
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I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce"
voting at elections is the best method.
[Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio,
nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]
Topic: Politics
Source: De Legibus (III, 15)
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There are no true friends in politics.
Topic: Politics
Source: De Legibus (III, 15)
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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
[Lat., Male parta, male dilabuntur.]
Topic: Possession
Source: Philippicoe (II, 27)
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We are all exited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most
influenced by glory.
[Lat., Trahimur omnes laudis studio, et optimus quisque maxime
gloria ducitur.]
Topic: Praise
Source: Oratio Pro Licinio Archia (XI)
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I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father.
[Words used by Hector.]
[Lat., Laetus sum
Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]
Topic: Praise
Source: Oratio Pro Licinio Archia (XI)
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I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.
[Lat., Bene qui conjiciet, vatem hunc perhibebo optimum.]
Topic: Prophecy (Prophesy)
Source: De Divinatione (II, 5), Greek adage
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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.]
Topic: Prosperity
Source: De Officiis (I, 26)
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It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity
with moderation.
[Lat., Ut adversas res, secundas immoderate ferre, levitatis
est.]
Topic: Prosperity
Source: De Officiis (I, 26)
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Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be
shunned.
Topic: Prudence
Source: De Officiis (I, 43)
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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.
[Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]
Topic: Prudence
Source: De Oratore (III, 35)
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Precaution is better than cure.
[Lat., Praestat cautela quam medela.]
Topic: Prudence
Source: De Oratore (III, 35)
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He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be
counted among great men.
[Lat., Qui ex errore imperitae multitudinis pendet, hic in magnis
viris non est habendus.]
Topic: Public
Source: De Officiis (I, 19)
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The rabble estimate few things according to their real value,
most things according to their prejudices.
[Lat., Vulgus ex veritate pauca, ex opinione multa aestimat.]
Topic: Public
Source: Oratio Pro Quinto Roscio Comoedo (X, 29)
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Let the punishment be equal with the offence.
[Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]
Topic: Punishment
Source: De Legibus (bk. III, 20)
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Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the
guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for
which others are not even indicted.
[Lat., Cavendum est ne major poena quam culpa sit; et ne iisdem
de causis alii plectantur, alii ne appellentur quidem.]
Topic: Punishment
Source: De Officiis (I, 23)
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Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.
[Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]
Topic: Reason
Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (II, 21)
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To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but
utterly shameless.
[Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis
est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]
Topic: Reputation
Source: De Officiis (1, 28)
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As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap.
[Sp., Ut sementem feceris, ita metes.]
Topic: Results
Source: De Oratore (II, 65)
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Philosophy is true mother of the arts. (Science)
[Lat., Philosophia vero omnium mater artium.]
Topic: Science
Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (bk. I)
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When they hold their tongues they cry out.
[Lat., Cum tacent clamant.]
Topic: Silence
Source: In Catilinam (1, 8)
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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.]
Topic: Slavery
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.]
Topic: Slavery
Source: Oratio Pro Rege Deiotaro (XI)
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That he was never less at leisure than when at leisure: nor that
he was ever less alone than when alone.
[Lat., Nunquam se minus otiosum esse quam cum otiosus; nec minus
solum quam cum solus esset.]
Topic: Solitude
Source: De Officiis (bk. III, ch. I)
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark
its intentions.
[Lat., Imago animi vultus est, indices oculi.]
Topic: Soul
Source: De Oratore (III, 59)
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No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.
[Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur
plagas.]
Topic: Stars
Source: De Divinatione (II, 13)
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He used to raise a storm in a teapot.
[Lat., Excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo.]
Topic: Storms
Source: De Legibus (III, 16)
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These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation
of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of
adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance
abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our
rural retreats.
[Lat., Haec studia adolecentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant,
secundas res ornant, adversis solatium et perfugium praebent,
delectant domi, non impediunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum,
peregrinantur, rusticantur.
Topic: Study
Source: Oratio Pro Licinio Archia (VII)
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Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and
watch you, as they have done already.
[Lat., Multorum te etiam oculi et aures non sentientem, sicuti
adhuc fecerunt, speculabuntur atque custodient.]
Topic: Suspicion
Source: Orationes In Catilinam (I, 2)
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The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because
foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and
pleasure.
[Lat., Cignoni non sine causa Apoloni dicata sint, quod ab eo
divinationem habere videantur, qua providentes quid in morte boni
sit, cum cantu et voluptate moriantur.]
Topic: Swans
Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 30)
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Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings,
Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings:
Live so, my Love, that when death shall come,
Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.
Topic: Swans
Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 30)
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