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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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Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.
Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.
Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.
The life given us by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.
The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.
Law is the perfection of reason implanted in us by nature, which enjoins what should be done, and forbids what we should not do.
Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.
Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.
It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.
I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
A war is never undertaken by the ideal State, except in defense of its honor or its safety.
I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method.
Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.
The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.
The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
Friends, though absent, are still present.
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