296 ordspråk av Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men
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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundaries
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Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
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For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends
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For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.
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For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture
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for the mere act of thinking a course expedient, when it is morally wrong, is demoralizing.
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For the Stoics do not say that a god is involved with the divisions in a particular liver or particular bird calls (which would be unbefitting, and unworthy of a god, and could not possibly happen); rather, the world was shaped from the beginning in
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Fortune rules life, not wisdom
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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never endangered
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