Quote #81
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Cicero
- There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
- To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.
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- We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.
- The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
- We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
- The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.
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