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Names Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- 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…
- We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers…
- Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?
- The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.
- The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom…
- Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory…
- In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.
- In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated…
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- The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. — Margaret Atwood
- '1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names. — Margaret Atwood
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the… — Paul Auster
- Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because… — Teresa of Avila
- Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on… — Jensen Ackles
- If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects… — Gaston Bachelard
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the… — Nicholson Baker