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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Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother. Thank you for my laughter. Thank you for my friend.
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But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?
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Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].
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If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.
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Philosophy is the true mother of science.
mother luxury wish
If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]
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There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.
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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