Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

“Nature abhors annihilation.”

“Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.”

“She will try to find the nice way to exercise intelligence. But intelligence is not ladylike. Intelligence is full of excesses. Rigorous intelligene abhors sentimentality, and women must be sentimental to value the dreadful silliness of the men around them. Morbid intelligence abhors the cheery sunlight of positive thinking and eternal sweetness; and women must be sunlight and cheery and sweet, or the woman could not bribe her way with smiles through a day. Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized. Any vital intelligence has passionate questions, aggressive answers; but women cannot be explorers; there can be no Lewis or Clark of the female mind.”

“I love Hitler for his leadership, but I abhor his actions.”

“The hardest chore to do, and to do right, is to think. Why do you think the common man would choose labor, partially, as a distraction from his own thoughts? It is because that level of stress, he most absolutely abhors.”

“Nature abhors a vacuum.”

“And I, a twister, love, what I abhor.”

“One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity.”

“Men bore me”

“I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.”