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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We know it's important, and we know the consumer wants bundling, so what we try to do is work with other companies to provide the lowest price for our digital television.
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It is a great thing to know our vices.
bad evil good hard suspect
It is hard for the good to suspect evil as it is hard for the bad to suspect good.
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Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing
men plato rather swear truth wrong
I swear I would rather be wrong with Plato than see the truth with men like these.
broken gone
He has departed, withdrawn, gone away, broken out.
himself self
He himself said it, and this self was Pythagoras.
cannot fortress money strong
There is no fortress so strong that money cannot take it
grow guided man whom
Give me a young man in whom there is some- thing of the old, and an old man with something of the young: guided so, a man may grow old in body, but never in mind.
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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never endangered
build house ornament owner precept
My precept to all who build is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner
raise storm
He used to raise a storm in a teapot.
attack basis personal speech
We must make a personal attack when there is no argumentative basis for our speech
destroys judgment nature time
Time destroys the speculations of man, but it confirms the judgment of nature