For the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROIt is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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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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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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Freedom is participation in power.
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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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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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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
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In times of war, the law falls silent.
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another’s heart.
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Ability without honor is useless.
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