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
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own, ... You can't clear your own fields while you're counting the rocks on your neighbor's farm.
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It's an exciting concept and we hope it will become a buzz of any town large or small.
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We wanted to develop a means to extend the way people watch our television programming. Taking that to the next level, we're stressing portability and choice. We wanted to provide an alternative solution, an array of different products for our customers to use.
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There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
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There is nothing done by the hands of man which sometime or other time does not destroy
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There is no sanctuary so holy that money cannot profane it, no fortress so strong that money cannot take it by storm
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Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
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To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?
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To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?
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To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
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We should be as careful of our words as of our actions, and as far from speaking ill as from doing ill
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They do more harm by their evil example than by their actual sin.
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A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues
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A careful physician, before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.