It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROIf you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
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In times of war, the law falls silent.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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Instead let Virtue herself, by her own unaided allurements, summon you to a glory that is genuine and real.
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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While there’s life, there’s hope.
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To be rather than to seem.
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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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