Roman - Statesman | 106 BC - 43 BC
Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
YourselfValueYouWillOthersBeen
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
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O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
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We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
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Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.
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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.
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No obligation to do the impossible is binding.
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Honor is the reward of virtue.
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The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
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