Browsing Quotes By Cicero
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own … You can’t clear your own fields while you’re counting the rocks on your neighbor’s farm
Speaker: CiceroPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As the cover is made to fit the shield and the scabbard to fit the sword, so everything in nature, except the universe itself, has been created to serve something other than itself.
Speaker: CiceroPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A flowing river cannot be so easily polluted as a standing pool. A full discourse washes away the scum of criticism, but the circle of a closed argument cannot so easily preserve its pristine purity.
Speaker: CiceroPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:36 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
[Regarding the human race] “earthbound at the misty bottom of the universe.”
Speaker: CiceroPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:35 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The crux of the matter is known to all men everywhere. From the birth it is inscribed upon their minds that gods exist.
Speaker: CiceroPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!