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Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero[n 1] (/ˈsɪsəroʊ/; Classical Latin: [ˈmaːr.kʊs ˈtʊl.lɪ.ʊs ˈkɪ.kɛ.roː]; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman politician and lawyer, who served as consul in the year 63 BC. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.

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This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.

Greatness, Men, Guilty, Weighed, Fortune

The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men

Celestial, Deserves, Men, Order, Respect

But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

Consensus, Law, Matter, Nature, Opinion

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

Age, Body, Hands, Old

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

Endowed, Seems, Virtue, Wish

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

Brief, Doubt, Pain, Philosophical, Severe, Slight

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

Adversity, Exactly, Friends, Nothing, Thing, World

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Greatest Love, Mines, Philosophical, Thine

Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

Art, Direct, Man, Philosophy, Wise

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

Body, Eye, Eyes, Highest, Sentinel, Sentinels

The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

Sweet, Peace, Names, Difference, Name

Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

Care, Doe, Exceed, Punishment, Taken

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

Friendship, Inspirational, Nature, Vice, Vices

Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything.

Causes, Diligence, Everything, Moment, Moments

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Philosophical, Silence, Denial, Though

Religion is the pious worship of God.

God, Pious, Religion, Worship

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Divine, Divine Inspiration, Inspiration, Inspirational, Portion, Portions

For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.

Believe, Opposites, Dwelling, Body, Perform, Moderation

No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

Stars, Science, Feet, Heaven, Sees

Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

Bait, Inasmuch, Lakes, Men, Plato

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