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20 Powerful Philosophy Quotes by "Marcus Tullius Cicero"

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1. “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

2. "Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

3. "More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.

It will steal you blind."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

4. "Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

5. "Long life is denied us;

therefore let us do something to show that we have lived."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

6. "Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors, and thieves."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

7. "Politicians are not born; they are excreted."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

8. "The wise are instructed by reason,
average minds by experience,
the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

9. "It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

10. "If you wish to persuade me,

you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

11. “Read at every wait; read at all hours;
read within leisure; read in times of labor;
read as one goes in; read as one goes out.

The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.”

- Cicero

12. “Non nobis solum nati sumus.

(Not for ourselves alone are we born.)”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

13. “While there's life, there's hope.”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

14. “The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

15. "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious.

But it cannot survive treason from within."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

16. “Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

17. "The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

18. "Nothing is more unreliable than the populace,
nothing more obscure than human intentions,
nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

19. “The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living.

The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time.

Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

20. “Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:

Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;

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Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”

- Cicero

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Mental models are the most important ideas of each science.

It is the way of thinking of the greatest in history.

With the help of books, etc,
It will internalize mental models in your head in a way that you will use them automatically.

Get your copy:

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