From Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC–43 BC)Roman politician and lawyer, served as consul in the year 63 BC:
Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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He Said That? 7/27/17
Some things don’t change. From Cicero (106 BC–43 BC), Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul and constitutionalist
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
He Said That? 6/27/17
From Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC–43 BC), Roman politician and lawyer, served as consul in the year 63 BC:
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying 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;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
He Said That? 11/28/16
From Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-43 BC), also known by the anglicized name Tully, in and after the Middle Ages, Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul and constitutionalist, Laelius On Friendship (44 BC):
Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
He Said That? 10/13/16
From Cicero (106 BC-43 BC), Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul and constitutionalist. Pro Roscio Comodeo Oratio:
Does not, as fire dropped upon water is immediately extinguished and cooled, so, does not, I say, a false accusation, when brought in contact with a most pure and holy life, instantly fall and become extinguished?
This seems like the perfect quote for this election, because false accusations have been brought in contact with the pure and holy lives of the two candidates, and have instantly been extinguished. Never have we seen such elevated and high-minded campaigns.
