Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
Marcus Tullius CiceroRead
Kindness is produced by kindness.
Interpretation
Acts of kindness inspire more kindness in others.
This quote by Cicero emphasizes the idea that kindness is not only a noble quality, but it serves as a catalyst for further kindness in society. When one person extends kindness to another, it creates a ripple effect that encourages others to act kindly in return, fostering a culture of goodwill and compassion.
In practice
During a speech about community values, one might quote Cicero to highlight the importance of kindness.
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.
No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
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.
Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
Everywhere you look for comparisons of life under anarchy and life under government, life under government is less violent.
The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.
If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.
The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transciencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.
We are all doing drag. Every single person on this planet is doing it.
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