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 habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.
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Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.
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People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.... Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don't wait till freedom is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect and make the most of it!
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I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europe.
directed good government ought receive trust
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
himself man mind
The mind of each man is the man himself
absurd
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