The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
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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 CiceroA man of courage is also full of faith.
That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
The best interpreter of the law is custom.
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
Hatred is settled anger.
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Hatred is inveterate anger.
Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never …