Our character (mores) is not so much the product of race and heredity, as
of circumstances by which nature forms habits, by which we are nourished
and live. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero "De Lege Agraria" (106-43 BCE)
of circumstances by which nature forms habits, by which we are nourished
and live. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero "De Lege Agraria" (106-43 BCE)
Related:
- The good of the people is the highest law.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero "De Legibus" (106-43... - Virtue is its own reward. [and] Ignorance of good and evil is the most
upsetting fact of human life.
Marcus Tullius Cicero "De Finibus" (106-43... - To live long, it is necessary to live slowly.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C... - Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their
fellow creatures.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C... - Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C... - Vivere est cogitare.
[To think is to live.]
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Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C... - An unjust peace is better than a just war.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero "Epistola ad Atticum" (106-43... - Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
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Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180 CE) "Meditations"... - Freedom is] the power to live as you will. Who then lives as he wills?
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C...
