Marcus Cicero

Quote: Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. [Marcus Cicero]

Quote: I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know. [Marcus Cicero]

Quote: That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Marcus Cicero]

Quote: Empire and liberty. [Marcus Cicero]

Quote: Brevity is a great charm of eloquence. [Marcus Cicero]

Quote: Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. [Marcus Cicero]

Quote: The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion. [Marcus Cicero]

Quote: They condemn what they do not understand. [Marcus Cicero]

Quote: As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved. [Marcus Cicero]

Quote: It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent. [Marcus Cicero]

Quote: He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself. [Marcus Cicero]

Quote: Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions. [Marcus Cicero]

Quote: What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might. [Marcus Cicero]

Quote: No well-informed person ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. [Marcus Cicero]

Quote: Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another. [Marcus Cicero]

Quote: They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper. [Marcus Cicero]

Quote: The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. [Marcus Cicero]

Quote: A room without books is like a body without a soul. [Marcus Cicero]

Quote: Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. [Marcus Cicero]

Quote: It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error. [Marcus Cicero]

Quote: It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. [Marcus Cicero]

Quote: The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves. [Marcus Cicero]

Quote: Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money. [Marcus Cicero]

Quote: Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. [Marcus Cicero]

Quote: Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. [Marcus Cicero]

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