The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
Cicero
Born: January 3, 107 BCE Died: December 7, 44 BCE
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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Alternative Names for Cicero
Formal name - Full ceremonial or official name including titles and honorifics:
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Latin (la))
Historical name - Name used during a specific period:
- Tully (English (en))
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But worst of all is the third limitation, which is that 'whatever value a man places upon himself, the same value should be placed upon him by his friends.' For often in some men either the spirit is too dejected, or the hope of bettering their fortune is too faint. Therefore, it is not the province of a friend, in such a case, to have the same estimate of another that the other has of himself, but rather it is his duty to strive with all his might to arouse his friend's prostrate soul and lead it to a livelier hope and into a better train of thought.
It is strong proof of men knowing things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.
For he (Cato) gives his opinion as if he were in Plato's Republic, not in Romulus' cesspool.
We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
For of what value is their vaunted 'freedom from care'? In appearance it is indeed an alluring thing, but in reality often to be shunned. For it is inconsistent not to undertake any honourable business or course of conduct, or to lay it aside when undertaken, in order to avoid anxiety. Nay, if we continually flee from trouble, we must also flee from Virtue, who necessarily meets with some trouble in rejecting and loathing things contrary to herself, as when kindness rejects ill-will, temperance lust, and bravery cowardice. And so you may see that it is the just who are most pained at injustice, the brave at cowardice, the self-restrained at profligacy. It is, therefore, characteristic of the well-ordered mind both to rejoice at good deeds and to be pained at the reverse.
They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever
Ein Raum ohne Bücher ist wie ein Körper ohne Seele.
To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.
The man who has a garden and a library has everything.
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Wenn du einen Garten und eine Bibliothek hast, wird Dir an nichts fehlen.
Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.
the rational treatment of any subject ought to take its start from definition, that readers may understand what the author is writing about.
atque illi artifices corporis simulacra ignotis nota faciebant; quae uel si nulla, nihilo sint tamen obscuriores clari uiri.