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Other Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always…
- Frugality includes all the other virtues.
- Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many…
- Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains…
- Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the…
- While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or…
- Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as…
- Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any…
- Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening…
- A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.
- In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is…
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