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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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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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But why should not the glorious Rainbow be included among the gods? It is beautiful enough, and its marvellous loveliness has given rise to the legend that Iris is the daughter of Thaumus. And if the rainbow is a divinity, what will you do about the clouds?
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The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.
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I wonder... that a soothsayer doesn't laugh when he sees another soothsayer.
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Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.
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But things that happen by chance cannot be certain.
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The Causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
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Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.
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This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.
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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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Whatever be the subject of a speech, therefore, in whatever art or branch of science, the orator, if he has made himself master of it, as of his client's case, will speak on it better and more elegantly than even the very originator and author of it can.
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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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