What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROTo teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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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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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
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Freedom is participation in power.
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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
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