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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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.
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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
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What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.
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There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.
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The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.
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All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.
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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