Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman statesman and writer
Lived from: 106 - 43
Category: Politics | Writers (Contemporary)
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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
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Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?
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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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Empire and liberty.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
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Friends are proved by adversity.
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Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.
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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
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Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.
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Hatred is inveterate anger.
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Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
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He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
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