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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I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
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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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Our liberality should not exceed our ability.
generosity should ability
Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.
generosity should ability
Generosity should never exceed ability.
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We must make a personal attack when there is no argumentative basis for our speech
consists decency giving justice
Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.
men plato rather swear truth wrong
I swear I would rather be wrong with Plato than see the truth with men like these.
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My precept to all who build is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner
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We analyzed information gathered from focus groups. From the feedback we received, the groups did not interpret the ads as vulgar.
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We analyzed information gathered from focus groups, ... From the feedback we received, the groups did not interpret the ads as vulgar.
life
To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
experience instructed less men wise
Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.