Cicero Quotes - Page 2

To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.

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What one has one ought to use and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

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Man is his own worst enemy.

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What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?

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Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat.

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No man in his senses will dance.

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

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Courage is the virtue which champions the cause of right.

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Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

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When you are aspiring to the highest place it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

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Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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Old age especially an honoured old age has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

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If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.

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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?"Cicero, Orator, 46 BCBy way of 'Dictator' by Robert Harris, 2015

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