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.
behind certain quite
We're quite certain that is all behind them.
delightful
There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.
absurd express opinion
There is no opinion so absurd that some philosopher will not express it
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We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory
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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
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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.