Marcus Tullius Cicero
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6 quotes we’ve traced to Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A grateful mind is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the other virtues”
Verified“A true friend is, as it were, a second self”
Verified“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living”
Verified“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others”
Attributed“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need”
Attributed“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book”
DisputedNot actually Marcus Tullius Cicero
Often misattributed to Marcus Tullius Cicero
Famous lines widely pinned on Marcus Tullius Cicero that we’ve traced to someone else.
“A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble”
actually Taylor Caldwell
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within”
actually Taylor Caldwell
“The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance”
actually Taylor Caldwell
“The evil was not in bread and circuses, per se, but in the willingness of the people to sell their rights as free men for full bellies and the excitement of the games which would serve to distract them from the other human hungers which bread and circuses can never appease”
actually Ben Moreell
“The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government”
actually Tacitus
“Time heals all wounds”
actually Terence
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book”
actually Unknown
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