Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes, Men Quotes, Tyrants Quotes

For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.

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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

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Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

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A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.

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Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

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It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.

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Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself.

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Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

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In one sense Brahman is known to every human being; he knows, "I am"; but man does not know himself as he is.

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...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.

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Man is a degeneration of what he was.

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It is the success which makes great men.

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Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

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war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

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If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more.

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A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

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Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.

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It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin.

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Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

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