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Marcus Tullius Cicero
106 BC - 43 BC. Roman writer and politician.
1. "While there is life, there is hope."
categories: Optimism and Hope
2. "There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness."
categories: Manners and Ethics
3. "There is in superstition a senseless fear of God."
categories: Bravery and Fear -:- God and Religion
4. "The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends."
source: "De Amicitia"
categories: Friendship and Hostility
5. "Let the punishment match the offense."
source: "De Legibus"
categories: Law and Crime
6. "Law stands mute in the midst of arms."
source: "Pro Milone"
categories: Law and Crime -:- Peace and War
7. "It is a trait of fools to perceive the faults of others but not their own."
source: "Tusculanae Disputationes"
categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Truth and Falsity -:- Wisdom and Stupidity
8. "In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done."
source: "De Officiis"
categories: Anger
source: "Pro Publio Sestio"
categories: History and Nations
10. "Freedom is participation in power."
categories: Freedom and Servitude -:- Power and Weakness
11. "By doubting we come at truth."
categories: Truth and Falsity -:- Question and Problem
12. "Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature."
categories: Art and Culture -:- Nature and Animals
13. "A friend is, as it were, a second self."
source: "De Amicitia"
categories: Friendship and Hostility
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