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 happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.
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Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.
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The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what power they exercise through their unions. They are a nation of rascals and deceivers.
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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
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