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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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?
born earlier events happened ignorant life lifetime memory past unless woven
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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Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.
events certain
Certain signs precede certain events.
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Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.
world events certain
Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.
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The shifts of fortune tests the reliability of friends
experience injury knew running
The whole injury experience was so frustrating. I knew if I could get back I would never take running for granted,
against proverbial stone stumble twice
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
attack basis personal speech
We must make a personal attack when there is no argumentative basis for our speech
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Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.
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We need more agility in inspection, collection and laboratory analysis, since we've had positive results on the farms that have eliminated the sick plants upon detection,