The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERONatural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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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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Books: our unfailing companions.
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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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While there’s life, there’s hope.
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The welfare of the people is the highest law.
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For the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.
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