If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROFew are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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Kindness is stronger than fear.
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Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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To be rather than to seem.
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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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For walk where we will, we tread upon some story.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
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I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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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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A friend is a second self.
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The welfare of the people is the highest law.
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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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We are all servants of the laws in order to be free.
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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
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A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
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While there’s life, there’s hope.
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The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
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