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b. 106 BC
Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC), infrequently known by the anglicized name Tully in the Middle Ages and after, was a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul and constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.
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Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.
Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.
No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body.
Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.
Let the punishment be equal with the offence.
No one dances sober, unless he is insane.
The memory of past troubles is pleasant.
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions.
Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
Constant practice devoted to one subject often prevails over both ability and skill.
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.
The foundations of justice are that no one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.
But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.
There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.
We, on the contrary, make blessedness of life depend upon an untroubled mind, and exemption from all duties.
De Natura Deorum – On the Nature of the Gods (-45)
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.
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