Marcus Tullius Cicero

Politician, Philosopher, Orator

Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, orator, and philosopher known for his contributions to rhetoric and political theory.

Born
January 1, 0106
Died
December 7, 2043
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"The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious."

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"The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong"

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"The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend."

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"While the sick man has life, there is hope."

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"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."

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"The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter."

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"Laws are silent in time of war."

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"Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries."

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"He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie."

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"The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure."

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"They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race."

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"A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation."

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"He has no worse enemy than himself."

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"The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]"

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"Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune."

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"The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs."

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"Those who do not know history will forever remain children"

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"The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth."

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