Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the sou…
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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About Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, and writer who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises of the Roman Republic that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire. The extensive writings of Cicero include treatises on rhetoric, philosophy, and politics. He is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists and the innovator of what became known as "Ciceronian rhetoric". Cicero was educated in Rome and in Greece.…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Marcus Tullius CiceroLiberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
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.
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Nature abhors annihilation.
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
The sinews of war are infinite money.
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.