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 Taxes are the sinews of the state.
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The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature. | Cicero |
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The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness. | Cicero |
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The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth. | Cicero |
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The freedom of poetic license. | Cicero |
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The fundamentals of justice are that no one shall suffer
wrong and that the public good be served. | Cicero |
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The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.
Ovid
No one was great without a touch of divine inspiration. | Cicero |
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The laws are silent in time of war.
An unjust peace is better than a just war. | Cicero |
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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 he | Cicero |
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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death. | Cicero |
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The people's good is the highest law. | Cicero |
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The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends. | Cicero |
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The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong. | Cicero |
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The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct. | Cicero |
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There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment. | Cicero |
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