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The chief recommendation [in a young man] is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred. [Lat., Prima commendiato proficiscitur a modestia tum pietate in parentes, tum in suos benevolentia.] - De Officiis (II, 13) [Youth] 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.] - De Officiis (II, 14) [Kindness] Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.] - De Officiis (II, 3) [Religion] The law of nations. [Lat., Jus gentium.] - De Officiis (III, 17) [Law] I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.] - De Officiis (III, 29) [Oaths] Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed. [Lat., In ipsa dubitatione facinus inest, etiamsi ad id non pervererint.] - De Officiis (III, 8) [Guilt] 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.] - De Oratore (I) [Ambition] Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. [Lat., Memoria est thesaurus omnium rerum e custos.] - De Oratore (I, 5) [Memory] If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.] - De Oratore (II, 40) [Avarice] As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap. [Sp., Ut sementem feceris, ita metes.] - De Oratore (II, 65) [Results] In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. [Lat., Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus maximis fastidium finitimum est.] - De Oratore (III, 25) [Pleasure] I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.] - De Oratore (III, 35) [Prudence] The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. [Lat., Imago animi vultus est, indices oculi.] - De Oratore (III, 59) [Soul] Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself. [Lat., Minime sibi quisque notus est, et difficilime de se quisque sentit.] - De Oratore (III, 9) [Knowledge] He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately. [Lat., Is enim est eloquens qui et humilia subtiliter, et magna graviter, et mediocria temperate potest dicere.] - De Oratore (XXIX) [Eloquence] Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child. [Lat., Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum.] - De Oratore (XXXIV) [History : Knowledge] Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.] - De Republica (I, 44) [Slavery] You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.] - De Senectute [Age] I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.] - De Senectute (23) [Death] But a perverse temper and fretful disposition make any state of life unhappy. [Lat., Importunitas autem, et inhumanitas omni aetati molesta est.] - De Senectute (III) [Character] A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.] - De Senectute (IX) [Intemperance] What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does he should do with all his might. [Lat., Quod est, eo decet uti: et quicquid agas, agere pro viribus.] - De Senectute (IX) [Action] 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.] - De Senectute (XII) [Pleasure] 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.] - De Senectute (XIII, 44) [Pleasure] Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent. [Lat., Quod exemplo fit, id etiam jure fieri putant.] - Epistles (IV, 3) [Example] Displaying page 15 of 19 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 [15] 16 17 18 19
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