Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROHe only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
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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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In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.
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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 will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
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Nothing cruel is in fact beneficial; for cruelty is extremely hostile to the nature of man, which we ought to follow.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
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It is a great thing to know your vices.
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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
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I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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In times of war, the law falls silent.
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
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