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    "A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him" - Marcus Tullius Cicero

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    • “A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
    • “Friends are proved by adversity.” Marcus Tullius Cicero
    • “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
    • “Life is nothing without friendship.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
    • “Old age by nature is rather talkative” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
    • “The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
    • “There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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    Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes about Age
    Marcus Tullius Cicero’s Quotes on Character
    Inspirational Quotes of Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Quotes about Friendship by Marcus Tullius Cicero

    Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes about Age

    A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

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    Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

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    An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.

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    For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

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    I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

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    If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

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    No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

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    Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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    Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

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    Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

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    The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

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    The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

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    To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.

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    Marcus Tullius Cicero’s Quotes on Character

    As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

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    In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

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    It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

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    It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post

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    No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

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    Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.

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    The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

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    The more peculiarly his own a man’s character is, the better it fits him

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    Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.

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    Inspirational Quotes of Marcus Tullius Cicero

    A man of courage is also full of faith

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    Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

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    No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

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    The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

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    The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.

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    The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

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    The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil

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    The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

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    Virtue is its own reward.

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    Quotes about Friendship by Marcus Tullius Cicero

    A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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    Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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    Friends, though absent, are still present.

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    Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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    Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

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    Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

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    He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

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    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 noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

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    The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

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    The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends

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    There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

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