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Letter "M" » Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
«The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a life well spent is eternal.»
«The budget should be balanced. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
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assistance, balanced, bankrupt, bankrupts, budget, curtail, lands, officialdom, public debt, public lands, Rome, tempered
«There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.»
«There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
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fireplace, fireplaces
«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 using friendly and sincere words.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
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Friendship
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friendlier, friendly, lacks, mutual, rule of, sincere, supplying, sympathy, using, with sympathy
«Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.»
«Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
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contributes, contributing, entertainment, fortune, reader, vicissitude, vicissitudes
«One orator in a family, nay even in a city, is enough»
«Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.»
«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 themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.»
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