Cicero - Human Quotes

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Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

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Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.

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Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.

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It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

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Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

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Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

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I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life... It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.

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