The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROPoliticians are not born; they are excreted.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROWhen you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROIn all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROWhat an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROOld age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROWhat one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROIt is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROFew are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERONothing cruel is in fact beneficial; for cruelty is extremely hostile to the nature of man, which we ought to follow.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROA friend is a second self.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROIt is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROI criticize by creation, not by finding fault.
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