A Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world. — © Marcus Tullius Cicero
From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.

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To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.
My problem is not that I see all 17 sides of any issue, but I'm equally passionate about all 17 sides simultaneously.
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.
The environmentalist's dream is an egalitarian society based on: rejection of economic growth, a smaller population, eating lower on the food chain, consuming a lot less, and sharing a much lower level of resources much more equally.
At the heart of male bonding is this experience of boys in early puberty: they know they must break free from their mothers and the civilized world of women, but they are not ready yet for the world of men, so they are only at home with other boys, equally outcast, equally frightened, and equally involved in posturing what they believe to be manhood.
We have a responsibility to hold both sides accountable to the public interest, but that doesn't mean we reflexively and artificially hold both sides 'equally' accountable when the facts don't warrant that.
The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
When a monk goes away from the world, he goes fighting with it. it is not a relaxed going. His whole being is pulled towards the world. He struggles against it. He becomes divided. Half of his being is for the world and half has become greedy for the other. He is torn apart. A monk is basically a schizophrenic, a split person, divided into the lower and the higher. And the lower goes on pulling him, and the lower becomes more and more attractive the more it is repressed. And because he has not lived the lower, he cannot get into the higher.
In truth, Wall Street is in for a radical makeover. Fewer people, lower margins, lower risk, lower compensation - and ultimately, fewer talented people. It is likely to change the culture of an industry that for nearly a century has been the money center of the world.
Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.
The world isn't set up equally, and the first billion people using Facebook have way more money than the rest of the world combined.
But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it.
To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.
There is a creative act involved by the receiver as well as by the sender and that makes for innovation. Both sides are equally important.
The two sides that fought in World War I lived in the same century but in different places. The same is true for World War II. In World War III, both sides are almost everywhere, but they live in different centuries.
People have two sides, and a person first becomes appealing when you discover both of those sides - and worlds work exactly the same way.
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