Speaking Latin properly is indeed to be held in the highest… - Cicero

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Speaking Latin properly is indeed to be held in the highest regard – not just because of its own merits, but in fact because it has been neglected by the masses. For it is not so much Noble to know Latin as it is disgraceful not to know it.

Cicero

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snobbery high-culture elitism

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Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC), infrequently known by the anglicized name Tully in the Middle Ages and after, was a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul and constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.

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Breve tempus ætatis satis est longum ad bene honesteque vivendum

It’s not by strength or speed or swiftness of body that great deeds are done, but by wisdom, character, and sober judgment.

Odiosa razza di uomini, quella che rinfaccia i favori, che dovrebbe ricordare chi li ha ricevuti, non chi li fece.

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