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“Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Hatred is inveterate anger.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Peace is liberty in tranquillity.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“ Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“No obligation to do the impossible is binding.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
“When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“True nobility is exempt from fear.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Nature abhors annihilation.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero