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
proceeds reputation
Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.
room
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
advice
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
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We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free
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We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free
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We know it's important, and we know the consumer wants bundling, so what we try to do is work with other companies to provide the lowest price for our digital television.
delightful
There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.
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There is no opinion so absurd that some philosopher will not express it
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We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory
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For the Stoics do not say that a god is involved with the divisions in a particular liver or particular bird calls (which would be unbefitting, and unworthy of a god, and could not possibly happen); rather, the world was shaped from the beginning in
himself self
He himself said it, and this self was Pythagoras.
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There is no fortress so strong that money cannot take it