Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes, Character Quotes, Men Quotes

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

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... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.

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I love it when you like a character, and then she does something you don't like, and you hate her for a while - then you love her again. I'd like to see her have unlikable moments that the audience understands and sympathizes with.

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The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in action.

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Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

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The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you.

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I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.

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The force of character is cumulative.

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In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges, thermometers, and telescopes; and in society, besides farmers, sailors, and weavers, there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character; persons of a fine, detecting instinct, who note the smallest accumulations of wit and feeling in the bystander.

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In truth, no men on earth can cheer like Englishmen, who do so rally one another's blood and spirit when they cheer in earnest, that the stir is like the rush of their whole history, with all its standards waving at once, from Saxon Alfred's downwards.

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

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There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

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The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.

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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.

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Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

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A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

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The presidency is a serious job that requires sound judgment and good ideas, and there's no doubt in my mind that Jeb Bush has the experience and the character to be a great president.

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What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

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Character teaches above our wills.

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