truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 22 January 2007 7:51 am

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 22 January 2007 7:53 am

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 22 January 2007 7:54 am

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 22 January 2007 7:55 am

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 22 January 2007 7:58 am

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 22 January 2007 7:59 am

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 22 January 2007 8:02 am

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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