Roman - Statesman | 106 BC - 43 BC
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
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Hatred is inveterate anger.
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All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.
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He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
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A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
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For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
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