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- Let your desires be ruled by reason.
(Appetitus Rationi Pareat) - Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- A room without books is like a body without a soul.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), (Attributed)
- Laws are silent in times of war.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Orator, chapter 34, section 120
- There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
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