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Cicero
«To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.»
«Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: But they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man»
Author: Thomas Hobbes
(Philosopher)
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Words
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Aristotle, Cicero, counters, reckon, The Authority, Thomas, whatsoever
«Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Growing up
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Cicero, forgetful, Libraries, meek
«I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
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Cicero, heavy-laden, lade, laded, laden, lading, Plato, sayings
«If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
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censorship, Cicero, Horace, Juvenal, philosophical, Rome, Writings