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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Cicero?
- → I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
- → Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
- → Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
- → The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
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Pick the quote attributed to Cicero.
- → The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
- → One would risk being disgusted if one saw politics, justice, and one’s dinner in the making.
- → Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
- → A leader is a dealer in hope.
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Select the quotation attributed to Cicero.
- → Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
- → When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
- → It is a great thing to know our vices.
- → One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
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One of these may be attributed to Cicero. Which one?
- → The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
- → How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
- → We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy.
- → It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.
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Which one of these belongs to Cicero?
- → How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
- → We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy.
- → It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.
- → Anger as soon as fed is dead - 'Tis starving makes it fat.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Cicero?
- → It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
- → Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.
- → Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
- → Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Cicero.
- → To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
- → Expect poison from standing water.
- → The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
- → If two people ride the same horse, one must ride behind.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Cicero. Which one?
- → No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
- → Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
- → Too great a hurry to discharge an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
- → There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Cicero?
- → When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
- → The offender never pardons.
- → Never make a defence or apology before you be accused.
- → Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Cicero.
- → He who allows oppression shares the crime.
- → To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
- → Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
- → Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Looks like Cicero is the author of one of these.
- → Some people with great virtues are disagreeable, while others with great vices are delightful.
- → Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
- → If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
- → It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.
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Pick the one quotation belonging to Cicero.
- → Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.
- → The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.
- → The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
- → There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
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Which one should be attributed to Cicero?
- → A room without books is like a body without a soul.
- → A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
- → It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
- → Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Can you identify which quote belongs to Cicero?
- → The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
- → Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
- → Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- → It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
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Select the quote belonging to Cicero.
- → Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
- → The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
- → I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
- → The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.
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Choose which quotation belongs to Cicero.
- → If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
- → I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- → Character is what you are in the dark.
- → If you stop telling lies about us we will stop telling the truth about you.
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Select the quote, which is attributable to Cicero.
- → Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
- → The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
- → Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine.
- → Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Identify the quotation belonging to Cicero?
- → It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- → We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.
- → Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.
- → Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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