Cicero - Nature Quotes

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I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.

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For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.

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I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.

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Nature shrinks from destruction.
In Latin: Ab interitu naturam abhorrere

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The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

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If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

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Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

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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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Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

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All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

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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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Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.

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Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

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Time destroys the figments of the imagination, while confirming the judgments of nature.

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Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

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Whatever befalls in accordance with Nature should be accounted good.

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Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

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In short, enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age—each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

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