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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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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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You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.
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It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.
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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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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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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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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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No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.
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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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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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If a man should ascend alone into heaven and behold clearly the structure of the universe and the beauty of the stars, there would be no pleasure for him in the awe-inspiring sight, which would have filled him with delight if he had had someone to whom he could describe what he had seen.
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Nature shrinks from destruction.
In Latin: Ab interitu naturam abhorrere
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In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.
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For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly said, "that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law is a silent magistrate.
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No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.
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The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.
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Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.
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The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.
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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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If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.
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Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.
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Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.
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It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.
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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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Born:
January 3, 106 BC
Died:
December 7, 43 BC
(aged 62)
Bio:
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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