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20 Powerful Philosophy Quotes From "Cicero"

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

4. “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

5. "Poor is the nation that has no heroes,

But poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

8. "If you wish to persuade me,

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

But it cannot survive treason from within...

For the traitor appears not to be a traitor...

He rots the soul of a nation...

He infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

11. "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

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

14. "When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

15. "Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

16. "More laws, less justice."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

18. "When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent;

It is a usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance,

for votes with which to perpetuate itself."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

20. “Non nobis solum nati sumus.

(Not for ourselves alone are we born.)”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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