Tag: Cicero

Strain every nerve to gain your point.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Cicero

Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient.

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The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

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The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

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The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

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The freedom of poetic license.

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The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret – that man is black at heart mark and avoid him.

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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

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The people’s good is the highest law.

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The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.

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