Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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• Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.

  

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• What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.

  

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• I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.

  

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• Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that.

  

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• I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?

  

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• It's kind of hard in politics to forget that you're a Democrat or a Republican and remember that you're a father and a grandfather... and that they're entitled to more than they're getting.

  

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• An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

  

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• People will always want a free lunch.

  

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• You have to be physical. If you are not, defensive backs will try to pick on you.

  

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• I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.

  

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• I'm capable of living in the moment. And I'm especially capable of living in the moment of sitting on my sofa and watching other people's moments.

  

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• ..., and the traffic noise that boomed in through the window was another reminder of what his spirit knew, that he was but a grain of sand in someone else's desert.

  

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• Pleasant, berries in the time of harvest; Also pleasant, wheat upon the stalk. Pleasant the sun moving in the firmament; Also pleasant the retaliators of outcries.

  

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• And I don't even gotta make no goddamn sense, I just did a whole song and I didn't say shit!

  

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• I greet you, my educated fellow bourgeois, whose interests and whose doubts I share.

  

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• It's people, not possessions, that make home for me. It's not that I get much time to entertain, or any of that, what with the television production schedule and, now, singing concerts all around the country and making recordings.

  

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• The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.

  

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• You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict.

  

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• By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.

  

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• To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero