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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.


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MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to live the life of a child forever. For wha...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been...
ABERJHANI I've been the oldest child since before you were born
E.L. KONIGSBURG We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers.
ELIZABETH GEORGE Never forget the importance of history. To know nothing of what happened before you took your place ...
SOURCE UNKNOWN What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, bef...
PEARL BUCK What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, bef...
PEARL S. BUCK I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of t...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of t...
CICERO You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself to be.
ALBERT GRAY To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Reject the religious labels and accept the only label that matters “Born Again
JOHN M SHEEHAN To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born
DEAN INGE Be who you want to be not what others think you should be.
BILAL SAIF What is the use of a new-born child?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN You know you're being yourself when you 'please' without trying (so hard).
MITTA XININDLU As long as you stay ignorant and deny reflecting upon how disorganised you are, some chances of your...
VISHAL OSTWAL To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA Dare to follow your own paths.
Dare to be yourself.
Dare to be different.
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA Daisy stared worriedly into his shadowed face. “What if you change your mind about me? What if you...
LISA KLEYPAS Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.
PROVERB The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a ...
ORLANDO BLOOM Pieces of me, I'm giving to you. In the words that I say and the things that I do.
SHELLI THOMPSON Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI Choose your words before talking
SOTONYE ANGA Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were her...
DON MIGUEL RUIZ The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
BERNARD BERENSON Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.
DAVID BROOKS To truly be satisfied in life, you must invest your time into doing what you were born to do instead...
SUNDAY ADELAJA How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. [W]hen one is 'born again,' one is newly a child. It represents a second return to a state of chroni...
BIBLE Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
LADY BIRD JOHNSON A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
BIRD JOHNSON A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
CLAUDIA LADY BIRD JOHNSON True greatness is not about money or fame. It is about becoming what you were born to be
CLEMENT OGEDEGBE Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does...
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ...
STEPHANIE KLEIN To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE Before you start to consider your limits, you should consider that you were born limitless.
MICHAL HARCEJ Being a friend to your child is the best gift you give to your child.
JONATHAN CHEN How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child.
ANDREA BOCELLI How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

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CICERO It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
CICERO Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
CICERO Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
CICERO A room without books is like a body without a soul.
CICERO Virtue is its own reward.
CICERO He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
CICERO Man is his own worst enemy.
CICERO Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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CICERO He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
CICERO Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinio...
CICERO A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
CICERO Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
CICERO Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
CICERO The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.
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CICERO The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.
CICERO There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
CICERO A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
CICERO We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free.
CICERO When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
CICERO Hatred is settled anger.
CICERO There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
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CICERO The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
CICERO Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
CICERO Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
CICERO Endless money forms the sinews of war.
CICERO We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
CICERO The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
(Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex)
CICERO The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.
CICERO The people's good is the highest law.
CICERO Law stands mute in the midst of arms.
CICERO Our thoughts are free.
CICERO Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor ...
CICERO Let your desires be ruled by reason.
(Appetitus Rationi Pareat)
CICERO Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
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CICERO While there's life, there's hope.
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CICERO Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
CICERO We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
CICERO Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient.
CICERO The freedom of poetic license.
CICERO There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
CICERO The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference betw...
CICERO Let the punishment match the offense.
CICERO A friend is, as it were, a second self.
CICERO When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson...
CICERO What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.
CICERO We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist a...
CICERO To each his own.
(Suum Cuique)
CICERO To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.
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CICERO Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.
CICERO No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
CICERO The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorit...
CICERO The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.
CICERO What a time! What a civilization!
CICERO When you have no basis of argument, abuse the plaintiff.
CICERO By doubting we come at truth.
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CICERO I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
CICERO It is a true saying that "One falsehood leads easily to another".
CICERO It is a great thing to know our vices.
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CICERO In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for hon...
CICERO If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, plac...
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CICERO He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
CICERO Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
CICERO Force overcome by force.
(Vi Victa Vis)
CICERO By force of arms.
(Vi Et Armis)
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CICERO As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
CICERO Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
CICERO All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.
CICERO Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
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CICERO A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
CICERO A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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CICERO The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
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CICERO The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.
CICERO Strain every nerve to gain your point.
CICERO Reason should direct and appetite obey.
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CICERO No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.
CICERO Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
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CICERO Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
CICERO Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.
CICERO Laws are silent in times of war.
CICERO Superstition is a senseless fear of God.
CICERO Taxes are the sinews of the state.
CICERO There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.
CICERO There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
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CICERO The First Bond of Society is Marriage.
CICERO No sane man will dance.
CICERO We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.
CICERO They do more harm by their evil example than by their actual sin.
CICERO There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.
CICERO The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
CICERO [One recent survey says,] people are tired of news, ... Our minds possess by nature an insatiable de...
CICERO It is hard for the good to suspect evil as it is hard for the bad to suspect good.
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CICERO Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
CICERO If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
CICERO A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for...
CICERO What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?
CICERO The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the o...
CICERO This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age. Latin: Hoc vinum Falernum annorum q...
CICERO Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
CICERO A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
CICERO It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own, ... Yo...
CICERO The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.
CICERO We're serious. This isn't a joke, ... If an entire town changed its name to DISH, you can't buy that...
CICERO I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. [Lat., Non me pudet fateri ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed. [Lat., I...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Hell is paved with good intentions.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world. [Lat., Undique ad inferos tantundem viae...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men. [Lat., Homines ad d...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Philosophy is true mother of the arts. (Science) [Lat., Philosophia vero omnium mater artium.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In the approach to virtue there are many steps. [Lat., In virtute sunt multi adscensus.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it. [Lat., Virtute enim...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Honor is the reward of virtue. [Lat., Honor est premium virtutis.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, b...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. [Lat., Nam ut...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) There are no true friends in politics.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art. [Lat., Meliora sunt ea quae natu...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our ow...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The chief recommendation [in a young man] is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then aff...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Not only is that an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it. [Lat., Nam non...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech. ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake. [Lat., J...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Justice renders to every one his due. [Lat., Justitia suum cuique distribuit.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Extreme justice is extreme injustice. [Lat., Summum jus, summa injuria.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest. [Lat., Meminerimus etiam adversu...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong. [Lat., Maxima illecebra est peccandi ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Sp., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind. [Lat., In animi securitate vitam beatam pon...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and wo...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) A friend is, as it were, a second self. [Lat., Amicus est tanquam alter idem.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse,...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind. [Lat., Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabu...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time. [Lat., Pereant amici, du...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present m...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to the second or even the third rank. ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit. [Lat., Abores ser...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy. [Lat., Nemo doctus un...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) At whose sight, like the sun, All others with diminish'd lustre shone.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like. [Lat., Pares autem vetere proverbio,...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) By some fortuitous concourse of atoms. [Lat., Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered; nothing more readily received; noth...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the hi...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) First things first, second things never.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The beginnings of all things are small. [Lat., Omnium rerum principia parva sunt.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed. [Lat., In ipsa du...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejud...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) That he was never less at leisure than when at leisure: nor that he was ever less alone than when a...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does he should do with all his might. [Lat., Quod...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat....
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made. [Lat., In omnibus negoti...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unq...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Precaution is better than cure. [Lat., Praestat cautela quam medela.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of natu...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perni...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Unraveling the web of Penelope. [Lat., Penelopae telam retexens.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men. [Lat.,...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. [Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like). (Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not s...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an o...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) His deeds do not agree with his words. [Lat., Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue. [Lat., Vol...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook....
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. [Lat., Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. [Lat., Ut adver...
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