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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The budget should be balanced. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.
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The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.
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The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.
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I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europe.
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The administration of government, like guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust
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The countenance is the portrait of the mind, the eyes are its informers
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No man is so old as to think he can't live one more year
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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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The minds of men do in the weather share, dark or serene as it's foul or fair
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The mind of each man is the man himself
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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