A community portal about Cicero with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Marcus Tullius Cicero was an orator, statesman, political theorist, lawyer and philosopher of Ancient Rome. He is considered by many to be...
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A community portal about Cicero with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Marcus Tullius Cicero was an orator, statesman, political theorist, lawyer and philosopher of Ancient Rome. He is considered by many to be amongst the greatest of the Latin orators and prose writers.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero ( Classical Latin pronounced [ˈkikeroː] , usually pronounced /ˈsɪsərəʊ/ in English; January 3 , 106 BC – December 7 , 43 BC) was a Roman statesman , lawyer, political theorist , philosopher , and Roman constitutionalist . Cicero is widely considered one of Rome’s greatest orators and prose stylists
Cicero is generally perceived to be one of the most versatile minds of ancient Rome .
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* The illusion that personal gain is made up of crushing others.
* The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected.
* Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it.
* Refusing to set aside trivial preferences.
* Neglecting development and refinement of the mind, and not acquiring the habit of reading and study.
* Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
–Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 B.C. - 43 B.C.)
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Did Cicero know Obama and thugs were coming?
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot
survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for
he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst
those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the
alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor
appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he
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"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is" -- Marcus Tullius Cicero Labels: cicero , economy , money quotations , money quote , revenue
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"Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says." [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse.] *Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero), Philippics (XII, 2) Read Full Story
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