When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
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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Not for ourselves alone are we born.
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What is sweeter than lettered ease?
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The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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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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Wisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast .
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I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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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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Ability without honor is useless.
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A man of faith is also full of courage.
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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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A friend is a second self.
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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you’ll never go wrong.
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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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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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The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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