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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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Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already.
It is a proof of great talents to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.
We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.
He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.
We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.
No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.
To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless.
It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.
Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.
The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body.
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
But a perverse temper and fretful disposition make any state of life unhappy.
Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered; nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed.
He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.
In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.
Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.
True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can anything feigned be lasting.
De Officiis – On Duties (-44)
Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters.
I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.
Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.
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