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“The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Two distinctive traits especially identify beyond a doubt a strong and dominant character. One trait is contempt for external circumstances, when one is convinced that men ought to respect, to desire, and to pursue only what is moral and right, that men should be subject to nothing, not to another man, not to some disturbing passion, not to Fortune.
The second trait, when your character has the disposition I outlined just now, is to perform the kind of services that are significant and most beneficial; but they should also be services that are a severe challenge, that are filled with ordeals, and that endanger not only your life but also the many comforts that make life attractive.

Of these two traits, all the glory, magnificence, and the advantage, too, let us not forget, are in the second, while the drive and the discipline that make men great are in the former.”
― Cicero

“We are all servants of the laws in order to be free”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Murder Trials

“I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero