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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
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O immortal gods! Men do not realize how great a revenue parsimony can be!
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But what is the benefit (you have done me)? That you did not kill me at Brundisium?
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Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.
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For the life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
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A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.
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No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.
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It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane.
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All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.
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Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)
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This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.
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No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.
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I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.
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For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.
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Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.
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We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If good will and affection are taken away, every joy is taken from life.
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It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.
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You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.
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Philosophers apply the term disease to all disorders of the soul, and they say that no foolish person is free from such diseases; sufferers from disease however, are not sound, and the souls of all unwise persons are diseased.
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For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.
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What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?
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I prefer, before heaven, to go astray with Plato, your reverence for whom I know, and admiration for whom I learn from your lips, rather than hold true views with his opponents.
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In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.
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They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.
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For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.
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Born:
January 3, 106 BC
Died:
December 7, 43 BC
(aged 62)
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Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul, and constitutionalist.
Known for:
De Oratore
In Catilinam
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