Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

First be a good animal.

I've got a lot of people that are really good at taming animals and working with animals; and they can't explain how they do. They just get a feeling from the animal.

Ser Barristan loves his honor, Grand Maester Pycelle loves his office, and Littlefinger loves Littlefinger.

Everybody wants a solution on how to help their dogs, but we can't really see the problem until we reconnect ourselves to our instinctual self.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

I never want to be that person again, that Vanity.

As a band gets more successful, there's a danger of falling in love with your own shadow.

Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.

Man loves most that which is his own.

This is the effect of panic, a natural effect, you could say that animal nature is like this, plant life would behave in exactly the same way, too, if it did not have all those roots to hold it in the ground, and how nice it would be to see the trees of the forest fleeing the flames.

Self worship is different from self love.

I am selfish. I am brave.

I think we’re like farm animals before an earthquake.

Every animal is providentially directed to the use of its proper weapon.

I don't use machines - animals don't use machines.

You don't put an animal in the corner without the animal striking back, you don't put a politician in the corner and without them expecting to strike back at you.

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.

Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits they've missed. The whole panoply of the universe has been neatly expressed to them as things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.