{"author":"Marcus Tullius Cicero","author_id":"Marcus+Tullius+Cicero","total_quotes":111,"quotes":[{"text":"Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age. ","author":"Marcus Tullius Cicero","tags":["youth","old age","old "],"id":4,"author_id":"Marcus+Tullius+Cicero"},{"text":"While there's life, there's hope.","author":"Marcus Tullius Cicero","tags":["hope","life"],"id":931,"author_id":"Marcus+Tullius+Cicero"},{"text":"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.","author":"Marcus Tullius Cicero","tags":["friendship","words","trying "],"id":941,"author_id":"Marcus+Tullius+Cicero"},{"text":"It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.","author":"Marcus Tullius Cicero","tags":["grief","hair","sorrow "],"id":8155,"author_id":"Marcus+Tullius+Cicero"},{"text":"Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.","author":"Marcus Tullius Cicero","tags":["great","pain","habit "],"id":17232,"author_id":"Marcus+Tullius+Cicero"},{"text":"Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense. ","author":"Marcus Tullius Cicero","tags":["justice","giving","legal "],"id":19907,"author_id":"Marcus+Tullius+Cicero"},{"text":"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.","author":"Marcus Tullius Cicero","tags":["de-officiis","virtue"],"id":22867,"author_id":"Marcus+Tullius+Cicero"},{"text":"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.","author":"Marcus Tullius Cicero","tags":["education","mind","body "],"id":25478,"author_id":"Marcus+Tullius+Cicero"},{"text":"The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.","author":"Marcus Tullius Cicero","tags":["excess","self-control","virtue"],"id":27375,"author_id":"Marcus+Tullius+Cicero"},{"text":"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.","author":"Marcus Tullius Cicero","tags":["friendship","beauty","love is "],"id":28506,"author_id":"Marcus+Tullius+Cicero"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":111,"pages":12,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}