Cicero
Full Name: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Birthdate: January, 106 BC
Birthplace: Formia, Italy
Date of Death: December 7, 43 BC
Occupation: Attorney, Author, Philosopher, and Statesman
Profile: Considered one of Rome's greatest orators.
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero
Number of Quotes: 8
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.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
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 be so in mind.
As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age: first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments;
second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.
Everything you reprove in another, you must carefully avoid in yourself.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
The sinews of war: unlimited money.
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