Times are bad. Children no longer obey.. Cicero

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

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Cicero

Profession: Statesman
Nationality: Roman

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My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

The more laws, the less justice.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

The peoples good is the highest law.

What is sweeter than lettered ease?

Mine is the disaster, if disaster there be; and to be severely distressed at one's own misfortunes does not show that you love your friend, but that you love yourself.

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