Cicero (106-43 BCE)

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By PrestwoodIT

Sun 27 Feb 2022

Published 4 years ago.

Updated 2 months ago.

Cicero (106-43 BCE)

106 BCE

84 Generations Ago

The stoic philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero was one of Rome’s greatest orators and had an immense influence on the Latin language.

Some of my favorite translated Cicero quotes:

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

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