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His Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
- It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
- Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
- Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
- He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
- The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
- Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.
- What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
- What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
- I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their…
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