Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROTimes are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy?
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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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Freedom is participation in power.
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
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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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Instead let Virtue herself, by her own unaided allurements, summon you to a glory that is genuine and real.
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What is sweeter than lettered ease?
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I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.
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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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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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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
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