Quote #70
Strain every nerve to gain your point.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Cicero
- Reason should direct and appetite obey.
- Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient.
- Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
- The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.
- Our thoughts are free.
- The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit …
- Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
- The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.