Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicerowas a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul, and constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and was one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionStatesman
again bites deeper endangered freedom suppressed
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never endangered
I am testis tempurum, lux veritatis, vita memorial, magistra vitae, nunita vetustatis. The Philosopher
err plato rather rightly
I would rather err with Plato than think rightly with these (Pythagoreans)
love rightly simply
Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom.
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Let arms yield to the toga, the laurel crown to praise.
arms civic laurels
Let arms give place to civic robes, laurels to paeans.
age age-and-aging arising blessed charged heavenly life plague pleasure youth
Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most blessed and heavenly effect, truly, if it eases us of what in youth was the sorest plague of life
age-and-aging great honoured pleasures value
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
economy economy-and-economics great men realize revenue
Men do not realize how great a revenue economy is
family orator
One orator in a family, nay even in a city, is enough
brave considers courage evil greatest highest pain pleasure temperate
No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.
buy changed entire name town
We're serious. This isn't a joke, ... If an entire town changed its name to DISH, you can't buy that publicity.
prepare rather
Let us not go over the old ground, let us rather prepare for what is to come
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We analyzed information gathered from focus groups. From the feedback we received, the groups did not interpret the ads as vulgar.