Cicero Quotes
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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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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
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One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.
[Bodies]
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Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.
[Oratory]
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Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places, and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.
[Literature]
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Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
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Peace is liberty in tranquility
[Peace]
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People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
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Persistence in one opinion has never been considered a merit in political leaders.
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Philosophy, if rightly defined, is nothing but the love of wisdom.
[Philosophy]
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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
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Rashness is the characteristic of ardent youth, and prudence that of mellowed age.
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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
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Reason is the ruler and queen of all things.
[Reason]
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Reason should direct and appetite obey.
[Appetite]
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Religion is not removed by removing superstition.
[Superstition]
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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
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