296 ordspråk av Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
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Old men are garrulous by nature.
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Old nature is by nature rather talkative.
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One orator in a family, nay even in a city, is enough
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One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.
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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak
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Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom.
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Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom.
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Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.
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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
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Reason should direct and appetite obey
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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Sincerity is not a test of truth - It is possible to be sincerely wrong
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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
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Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.
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