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Cicero Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC)
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By doubting we come at truth.

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.



To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man΄s lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men΄s minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

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