World Quotes - Page 888
For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it.
Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.171, Anchor
After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.
Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.371, Anchor
"In Catilinam", I, 4, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 321-25,
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (2010). “Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger”, p.13, Cosimo, Inc.
It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1887). “Ethical Writings of Cicero: Cicero De Officiis, Cicero De Senectute, Cicero De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream”
Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.
Divinatione (1st century b.c.).
The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.
"Tusculan Disputations". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 30, c. 45 BC.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.50