Tag: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Laws are silent in time of war.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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While there’s life, there’s hope.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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.
Marcus Tullius Cicero