Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Cicero: Letters to Friends, Volume I. Translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Harvard University Press, 2001, p. 119.
Eleanor Roosevelt was left the other half of the income. Many people accused FDR of disinheriting his own children, However, he did not. It was the income from the estate that he left to LeHand as she was disabled and had no other source of sustenance or to pay her medical bills. The principle assets were left ½ to his children, and when Missy LeHand passed away, the income then reverted to his children. He explained to his son that the children were all educated and healthy and could earned a living but Missy could not. The children grew up knowing Missy and actually gave her the name “Missy” which stuck. There was no resentment on their part..
This proverb which is taken seriously by most Chinese makes corruption harder to control.
Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, orator, lawyer and philosopher, who served as consul in the year 63 BC. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.
