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View Plans“ ”its underlying principles are in such close harmony with the absolute and eternal right that they can never become obsolete. At the same time, the division and arrangement of the treatise give it, so far as I know, the precedence over all other ethical treatises ancient or modern.
About Cicero
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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Additional quotes by Cicero
No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labours under the weight of fear.
Cuanto más depravado se vuelve un pueblo, más se indigna públicamente contra la inmoralidad.
Optime autem societas hominum conjunctioque servabitur, si, ut quisque erit conjunctissimus, ita in eum benignitatis plurimum conferetur. (...)
Homo, qui erranti comiter monstrat viam,
Quasi lumen de suo lumine accendat, facit
Nihilo minus ipsi lucet, cum illi accenderit.