Escritas - Cicero

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a linear unit of the size of type slightly larger than an em a Roman statesman and orator remembered for his mastery of Latin prose (106-43 BC)

Poems List

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The magistrates are the ministers

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

The eyes like sentinel occupy

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Silence is one of the

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

They condemn what they do

They condemn what they do not understand.

I never admire another's fortune

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

No liberal man would impute

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

Whatever that be which thinks,

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.

Be sure that it is

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.