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1– Joseph Addison, 3 Elements of Happiness
2– Douglas Bader, Handicaps
3– Charles A. Beard, Man's Purpose
4– John Bogle , Investing
5– Bertolt Brecht, Initiative
6– Robert Browning , Making the Effort
7– Giordano Bruno, Conviction
8– Edmund Burke, Doing the Right Thing
9– Albert Camus, Hope
10– Thomas Carlyle, Making a Difference
11– Dale Carnegie, Showing Appreciation
12– Winston Churchill, Courage and Listening
13– Marcus Tullius Cicero, Suspicions
14– Arthur Compton, Advantages of Modern Life
15– Kevin Costner, Staying True to Yourself
16– Bette Davis, Creativity and Money
17– Jefferson Davis, Subservience and Pride
18– Charles Dickens, The Ends Don't Justify the Means
19– George Eliot, Regrets
20– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Actions Speak Louder Than Words
21– Epictetus, Becoming Your Best Self
22– Malcolm Forbes, Character
23– Harrison Ford, Success and Individuality
24– Benjamin Franklin, Self-esteem vs. Popularity
25– Thomas Fuller, Hope
26– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Happiness and Harmony
27– Romain Gary, Humor and Dignity
28– Douglas Haig, No Surrender
29– Ernest Hemingway, Pressure
30– Victor Hugo, Obscure Struggles
31– Zora Neale Hurston, Making the Effort
32– Washington Irving, Women and Adversity
33– William James, Attitude
34– Thomas Jefferson, Style Vs Principle
35– Helen Keller, Changing the World
36– Robert F. Kennedy, Effort
37– Martin Luther King, Jr., Pride in Work
38– Charles Kingsley, Value of Work
39– Abraham Lincoln, Daily Life
40– Vince Lombardi, Resilience
41– George Leigh Mallory, Challenge
42– Abraham Maslow, Fulfillment Through Work
43– David McKay, Challenge
44– Friedrich Nietzsche, Self-Respect
45– Louis Nizer, Religion
46– Thomas Paine, Profiting from Adversity
47– Louis Pasteur, Ideals
48– Alexander Pope, Admitting Mistakes
49– Christopher Reeve, Dreams
50– Eleanor Roosevelt, Confronting Fear
51– Franklin D. Roosevelt, Happiness and Achievement
52– Theodore Roosevelt, No Excuses
53– E. Merrill Root, Work and Happiness
54– John Ruskin, Learning from Others
55– George Santayana, Lovers and Philosophers
56– William Shakespeare, Be Yourself
57– George Bernard Shaw, Creating Opportunity
58– John Steinbeck, Leadership
59– Robert Louis Stevenson, Potential
60– Thomas Szasz, Finding Yourself
61– Leo Tolstoy, What is Art?
62– Anthony Trollope, Against the Odds
63– Wang Yang-ming, Mistakes
64– Booker T. Washington, Rising Above Hatred
65– Hugh White, Focus on the Future
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"The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious." |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 - 43 BC), Roman Writer, Statesman, and Orator |
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Cicero was a poet and lawyer of note, although he is best known as a Roman politician during a period of power struggles between his political rival Catiline, Julius Caesar, and General Pompey. He is also considered to be the greatest Roman orator; his communication skills are a common thread of his work as a lawyer, poet, politician, and writer. Cicero's correspondence has served as a critical historical record; 835 of his letters and 58 of his speeches survive to record a tumultuous period when politics in general, and Cicero's own life, were marked by assassination, execution, and exile. His correspondence recorded events of his time; his writing formed a record, almost an encyclopedia, of contemporary philosophic thought.
Born to a family that was wealthy but not part of the aristocracy, Cicero was educated in Rome and Greece, and served in the military before beginning his legal career. He once gained an acquittal for a man accused of murder; Cicero boasted of "throwing dust in the jurymen’s eyes" with his rhetoric. In the year 63 B.C. Cicero faced an assassination attempt as a result of his opposition to Catiline's attempt to overthrow the Republic; Cicero survived but Catiline was executed. In 58 B.C. Cicero was forced into exile, but recalled the next year. In 51 B.C. he served as governor of the province of Cilicia for a year. After Caesar's murder, Octavian, Antony, and Lepidus formed a triumvirate that was hostile to Cicero; he was captured and executed on December 7, 43 B.C.; his head and hands were displayed on the speakers’ platform at the Forum in Rome.
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